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Hi! 1. Is this based on Terminus or some previous OSS project? 2. Is this using xterm.js for the terminal emulation?

• knolax 8y ago
  I just looked at the Terminus project page[0] and I'm really impressed that they seem to have run an entire linux emulator in the browser just to show off a terminal. [0]https://eugeny.github.io/terminus/ https://eugeny.github.io/terminus/
• zadjii 8y ago
  1. It's actually largely based off the original terminal on Windows, conhost.exe. We were able to re-use a lot of the codebase for the core of the implementation, with a thin new UI layer. This means that enhancements to the terminal will also help enhance the inbox console. 2. I spent a LOT of time looking at using xterm.js, and eventually decided against it. The main factor was that although it would provide us a nearly complete VT implementation, it was critically tied to the JS ecosystem, and no matter how much time we spent engineering it, we'd still be coupled to having a webview render text. So we instead decided to write it in C++, which meant that we'd initially have less VT compatibility, but our perf would be better in the long run.
  • runjake 8y ago
    This is excellent information. Thanks for taking the time.