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Anyone using Hyper? I played with it but pretty quickly reverted back to iTerm2. In fact iTerm2 is basically the first thing I install on a new system along wi

Anyone using Hyper? I played with it but pretty quickly reverted back to iTerm2. In fact iTerm2 is basically the first thing I install on a new system along with ZSH/Oh my ZSH.

jacquesc 7y ago
I tried a few times switching to Hyper. Loved the idea, but it's just nowhere near ready. I'm fine trading performance for scriptability / functionality. But spending hours just trying to get Hyper script opening new tabs was an exercise in frustration. And half the plugins I tried didn't work. Ecosystem is pretty messy and features are lacking. Switching to iTerm2 has been amazing. And with the new design in 3.3, I'm loving it even more.
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IfOnlyYouKnew 7y ago
Hyper is usable, and it has become rather fast when they switched the backend a few months ago. It's real promise is in scriptability, and, unfortunately, there aren't any must-have extensions for it. I think there are quite a few low-hanging fruits for the terminal, such as better integration with documentation or using an actually good language such as ruby directly on the command line. If I ever get around to try some of those ideas, I'd use Hyper as the platform.
- tuananh 7y ago
  There is no reason for me to use Hyper really. The reason I stick with VSCode even though it's slower than other editors is because of the features. Hyper has non of those.
penagwin 7y ago
I love the idea of how extensible it is, but I haven't found any practical ways to extend it yet. As mentioned the list of public extensions isn't great - Shaking my terminal with each letter is fun I guess for 30 seconds. Unless I find more creative ways to use it, I'm sticking with terminal.app because it's basically the lowest input delay terminal out there.
suhail 7y ago
Buggy. They broke clear recently. Copying and pasting is strangely difficult. It’s not as good. Settings through a json file is fairly confusing & esoteric at times.

Anyone using Hyper? I played with it but pretty quickly reverted back to iTerm2. In fact iTerm2 is basically the first thing I install on a new system along with ZSH/Oh my ZSH.

jacquesc 7y ago

I tried a few times switching to Hyper. Loved the idea, but it's just nowhere near ready. I'm fine trading performance for scriptability / functionality. But spending hours just trying to get Hyper script opening new tabs was an exercise in frustration. And half the plugins I tried didn't work. Ecosystem is pretty messy and features are lacking. Switching to iTerm2 has been amazing. And with the new design in 3.3, I'm loving it even more.

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IfOnlyYouKnew 7y ago

Hyper is usable, and it has become rather fast when they switched the backend a few months ago. It's real promise is in scriptability, and, unfortunately, there aren't any must-have extensions for it. I think there are quite a few low-hanging fruits for the terminal, such as better integration with documentation or using an actually good language such as ruby directly on the command line. If I ever get around to try some of those ideas, I'd use Hyper as the platform.

tuananh 7y ago
There is no reason for me to use Hyper really. The reason I stick with VSCode even though it's slower than other editors is because of the features. Hyper has non of those.

penagwin 7y ago

I love the idea of how extensible it is, but I haven't found any practical ways to extend it yet. As mentioned the list of public extensions isn't great - Shaking my terminal with each letter is fun I guess for 30 seconds. Unless I find more creative ways to use it, I'm sticking with terminal.app because it's basically the lowest input delay terminal out there.

suhail 7y ago

Buggy. They broke clear recently. Copying and pasting is strangely difficult. It’s not as good. Settings through a json file is fairly confusing & esoteric at times.