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A new terminal emulator [0] from scratch. It's native and cross-platform for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This is a product with a history of overpromising on the
by abnercoimbre 3y ago
A new terminal emulator [0] from scratch. It's native and cross-platform for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
This is a product with a history of overpromising on the release date, but I'm being more realistic with the roadmap and streaming progress on Twitch.
If it helps think of it as the indie, non-AI version of Warp [1].
[0] https://terminal.click https://terminal.click
[1] https://warp.dev https://warp.dev
- XCSme 3y agoGreat landing page for warp, also the tool looks really cool (I'm on Windows, so I have to wait). How is the privacy aspect? Does it use ChatGPT? Do you support any local LLMs?
- abnercoimbre 3y agoWarp is “free” and VC-funded. They require an account and login. I would be wary on the privacy front, but I don’t speak for them. Terminal Click is made by a indie hacker (me) and will be selling copies on release. You’ll own the binary and that’s that.
- replwoacause 3y agoThere's also https://www.waveterm.dev/ https://www.waveterm.dev/
- precompute 3y agoI don't understand why people need bloated electron apps for something as simple as a terminal. XFCE4-terminal just works for me. Having to open a RAM-hungry application to execute command-line applications is just negative progress.
- snowfield 3y agoI know it's crass, but why? Aren't terminals good enough
- CharlesW 3y agoIt seems like they're trying to solve a problem that they've observed. I know I'd like to read more on the "recognizes user intent and supports it with rich interactions" comment. Time for a manifesto?
- abnercoimbre 3y agoPerhaps I should. Don’t have a newsletter currently but RSS should work, or bookmarking the site and checking in every now and again :)
- nurettin 3y agoIt lets you run commands on program output text incrementally instead of piping the initial command or re-running it.
- nutrie 3y agoI wish somebody built an emulator as fast as xterm and as configurable as something like kitty. Until then, xterm it is.
- aumerle 3y agoxterm has extremely poor throughput performance. kitty and most other well designed terminals are atleast 2x as fast as xterm. For example: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/performance/#throughput https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/performance/#throughput Of all tested terminals xterm is faster only than konsole.
- jstimpfle 3y agoXterm feels faster to me than all alternatives I've tried (not kitty). I suspect it's input to screen latency. Also, crisp bitmap fonts. Startup is instant too. It has comparatively very good "fidelity", giving usable screen outputs with most applications without tinkering. A factor of 2x in throughput is nothing to sweat about I think, given that xterm is fast enough. Haven't verified the benchmarks in your link, and not tried kitty, but I believe the bench did not test xterm with bitmap fonts which I believe are significantly faster. I'd also look at CPU rasterization performance. I often don't have graphics acceleration available (in a VM).
- vram22 3y agoInteresting. I recently saw a video about a terminal emulator being developed in Zig by Mitchell Hashimoto. Googled now and found the text of the talk, which links to the video. https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-and-useful-zig-patterns https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-and-useful-zig-pattern...
- abnercoimbre 3y agoYeah Mitchell and I are friendly competitors. We recorded a discussion [0] on the future of terminals last year. [0] https://vimeo.com/854038896 https://vimeo.com/854038896