Using JavaScript to implement a terminal emulator makes sense if you take advantage of html/css. If it's just to implement a conventional terminal emulator, it

Using JavaScript to implement a terminal emulator makes sense if you take advantage of html/css. If it's just to implement a conventional terminal emulator, it may be difficult to justify the perforance/memory costs. But html/css does enable a lot of neat features, such as embedded graphics, css styling, etc. I think for DomTerm the features justify the costs: https://opensource.com/article/18/1/introduction-domterm-terminal-emulator https://opensource.com/article/18/1/introduction-domterm-ter...