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What ever happened to terminal "apps" being streams of text? Is just the JS ecosystem that does this or are others seeing the same trend?

• deleted 9y ago
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• scrollaway 9y ago
  vi's initial release date is from 1976. Maybe you could ask someone who used it back then whatever happened to terminal apps being streams of text? :) This is an interesting idea; a React-like layer to something like ncurses could be super useful and encourage more command line apps. Doing this in JS seems like a waste though...
  • mbrock 9y ago
    Brick for Haskell is really nice.
  • carussell 9y ago
    I'm hopeful that someone will add a terminal mode interface to VSCode. In theory, this would allow it to even run without Electron (using just NodeJS). The team was shrewd enough not to expose too many internals through the extension interface in the original design, so it's not intractable (at least not as high up on the scale of intractability as making non-breaking changes to Firefox).
  • jongold 9y ago
    There's a React interface to blessed! https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed
  • fovc 9y ago
    Ok fair point :-). And ncurses has been around a few years too. I just object to things like test-runners (looking at you jest) being written like this.
• zokier 9y ago
  There is a distinction to be made between terminal and command-line applications. You can have CLI without going through terminal layer, and you can have very GUI-esque stuff in your terminal.
• Lazare 9y ago
  That's...never been a thing?