Those possibilities are the reason why I started my terminal project, Extraterm. You can get an idea of its unique features here: http://extraterm.org/features.

Those possibilities are the reason why I started my terminal project, Extraterm. You can get an idea of its unique features here: http://extraterm.org/features.html http://extraterm.org/features.html. The advantage that Electron has over the alternatives is access to a massive ecosystem of libraries and components which can be reused. For example, if I want to add support for showing tabular data directly, I can grab an existing JS component, maybe a spreadsheet component even, and integrate it. I've done a little bit of experimenting with "alternate UX and display paradigms" shall we say, and that is a long term goal of the project too. Right now the current implementation focus is on filling out the list of standard boring terminal features which everyone needs and expects, plus some more performance work. The comparison with jupityr notebooks is a good one and it would be nice to support a richer experience while still being keyboard and command line focused.