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If there is shown to be a demand for this kind of terminal UX, someone may well write a native version of it. Possibly it will push some of the existing termina
by jsnathan 9y ago
If there is shown to be a demand for this kind of terminal UX, someone may well write a native version of it. Possibly it will push some of the existing terminal emulator projects to add new features, or someone will fork one of them.
Either way, it's nice to have options, and it's nice to see innovation, and if Electron makes it easier to innovate we should be glad of that.
- Karunamon 9y agoTechnically, adding a 5th prong to a middle of fork that bends backward is "innovative". But is it useful? Okay that was a bit snarky, but.. aside from the primitive monkey part of my brain that cringes at any electron app's resource (ab)use, there's the fact that these apps are proliferating like crazy, and the resource usage adds up after a while. If all you're running is Atom, you probably don't care. But when you're using Atom, Simplenote, Discord, Slack, Nylas, and Brave all on the same box at the same time (hi!), it's enough to bring even a modern desktop processor to its knees when any of them misbehave. With Moore's law on its way to being broken, I'd like to see tighter development, rather than this sprawl of easy-but-wasteful tools. Electron is to app development as Keurig machines are to coffee. Easy, convenient, horribly wasteful and inefficient.