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Why, though. I don't get it.

• KevanM 10y ago
  Electron is the new devil?
  • huhtenberg 10y ago
    It's the new "let's store everything in XML" from the late 90s.
  • rs86 10y ago
    Electron and dynamic languages
• H4CK3RM4N 10y ago
  It's electron. You're running a fully fledged Chrome instance(which at this point might as well be another full OS) in order to run a terminal emulator. This also means that it probably comes bogged down with all the shit which infests modern web development [1]. It also appears to take over lots of the autocomplete/history functions from BASH, which also means it will either not play nice with ZSH or carry over that functionality when used with ZSH. Going over the screenshots there also appear to be a bunch of hand populated options/descriptions(unless it's auto filling based on man) which would take away a lot of the modularity. Also, it appears to be coded in Node and the Read Me mentions Visual Studio, and REE M$ and all that comes in. [1] http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
  • nkkollaw 10y ago
    Got it. So the problem is with "based on Electron", I though it was the beginning of the sentence.
    • H4CK3RM4N 10y ago
      It's basically a terminal for use with the modern web, which is bad.
• lnx01 10y ago
  Perhaps OP doesn't like the idea of keeping an entire running Blink engine in memory just to have nice terminal features.
• ionised 10y ago
  Electron is a hammer in search of nails