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Why would anyone use Hyper? It's not like there aren't better terminal emulators out there for each platform. Using Electron to emulate a terminal is plain insa
by SPBS 5y ago
Why would anyone use Hyper? It's not like there aren't better terminal emulators out there for each platform. Using Electron to emulate a terminal is plain insanity to me, you are trading off performance and system resources for the js hype.
- crazy_horse 5y agoIt feels like some point within the last few years tech became a place where you are identified by the tools you choose (ok, vim and emacs have been around). Not just that, but you sell your project based on those tools. So you can have that revolt app that showed up yesterday that for some ungodly reason disabled text selection on their website (user hostile as fuck) but it was getting advertised because it was Rust. The top selling point was theming via Electron. They have to sell the project before it's actually ready. Blog posts like this are very thinly disguised advertisements for people like this guy who tweet all day about what tools they use. Which, he's successful, and more people are aware about this stuff than before. It used to be bad form to quote yourself, but tweet yourself? That's content. I blame a big part of it on YC and the VC ethos of big big big instead of better better better.
- capableweb 5y agoSame reason Rust people use a package manager made in Rust, JS people use a package manager made in JS and Java people use a package manager made in Java, because it's close to the context you're already in and if you need to extend/modify/remove something for your own use/for the community, you already know how to do it. I myself would never use Hyper, but I can see why people would. If there was a comfortable terminal in/for/with Clojure, I'd at least try it.