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You think having a terminal in a browser is amazing because it will let you run browser applications in a terminal?
by sciurus 15y ago
You think having a terminal in a browser is amazing because it will let you run browser applications in a terminal?
- gfodor 15y agoUh, kinda. "Browser applications" is a bit misleading though. Imagine starting a Clojure REPL and having it graph things right there as you hack. Or having iconography or image previews when you run ls. Or being able to see mathematical notation while you're inside of BC. Or having a commandline interface to Wolfram|Alpha output. The TermKit reply in this thread should be sufficient to see why this will be very cool.
- sciurus 15y agoPeople already write these kinds of applications today [0], they just don't run in a terminal. I could ask what benefit there is to expanding a terminal's capabilities so they can run there, but then we would just end up rehashing the arguments from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2559734 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2559734 [0] E.G. http://fishsoup.net/software/reinteract/ http://fishsoup.net/software/reinteract/