VS Code also uses canvas elements for their terminal. I suspect we'll see VS Code (and perhaps Atom as they mentioned it somewhere) moving the main editor windo

VS Code also uses canvas elements for their terminal. I suspect we'll see VS Code (and perhaps Atom as they mentioned it somewhere) moving the main editor window to canvas as well. Overall, I think that's a decent trade-off. Most of the UI is quick, easy, and (potentially) extensible using HTML while the performance-sensitive parts move to what's basically a raw buffer. https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/10/03/terminal-renderer https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/10/03/terminal-rend...