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by sime2009 8y ago
No they don't. JS running on a modern engine like V8 are easily 10x faster than CPython which PyQt uses. If you think Python and JS are about the same speed then it is because of Qt itself, but certainly not because of CPython.
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by sime2009 8y ago
Those possibilities are the reason why I started my terminal project, Extraterm. You can get an idea of its unique features here: http://extraterm.org/features.html . The advantage that Electron has over the alternatives is
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by sime2009 8y ago
alas, there have been many attempts over the years for language bindings even to interesting targets like the JVM and mono/.Net, but none of them really gained "escape velocity", except for PyQt (which is great might I add).
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by sime2009 8y ago
> Start up time is horrible I'm surprised to hear that there are people who fully close and quit their terminal emulator.
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by sime2009 8y ago
Actually it makes a lot of sense. For an electron based browser the vast bulk of it is in the HTML/CSS/JS engine just like normal, but instead of doing the higher level code and UI chrome in C++, you just use the same language and
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by sime2009 8y ago
The problem is that your language choice is very limited. You can choose C++, no thanks, or Python which is very slow. There are no good options for languages or VMs on Qt in the Java/C#/VM/Jit range of the language performan
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by sime2009 9y ago
The vast majority of current web development project don't need to go anywhere near the bleeding edge "still in development" browser APIs. Your argument makes no sense in the year 2018.
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by sime2009 9y ago
You just dropped that comment about UX in at the end, but I think I know what you're hinting at. What I see from UX/UI people is that consistency means an app has the same look and feel across OS platforms and the web, and it matc
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by sime2009 9y ago
Web technologies have some unique non-technical qualities which trump the technical arguments: * Standards based with no single entity or company "owning" it. * Multiple mature competing implementations. * Massive support across t
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by sime2009 9y ago
Just a side note, but if you are building a commercial/serious product then your language options for Qt shrink down to just C++ and Python. Qt doesn't have many mature and maintained bindings to other languages.
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by sime2009 9y ago
To be honest the parents of the baby boomers would have been old enough to suffer through and fight the war, but wars tend to be started by the older generation who hold the political power.
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by sime2009 9y ago
Thanks for reporting your experiences here even though this discussion ended 3 days ago(!)
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by sime2009 9y ago
MicroPython runs great on the ESP8266 too.
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by sime2009 9y ago
Marijn, I'm big fan and user of CodeMirror. I make extensive use (and arguably abuse) of it in my side project. Thanks for building ProseMirror. One thing, how does ProseMirror work roughly? Does it avoid the `contentEditable` minefiel
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by sime2009 9y ago
and why would your experience of one terminal app based on Electron apply to all other terminal apps based on Electron? You even say that you don't notice latency in VSCode. A text editor and a terminal have similar problems to solve.
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by sime2009 9y ago
Can your project be found anywhere? (github??)
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by sime2009 9y ago
If you are looking for a terminal to use with cygwin then you should check out http://extraterm.org . It is in development but is stable enough for me to use full time on Linux and cygwin. Plus it has a bunch of other useful fea
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by sime2009 9y ago
There has been discussion of this idea. https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/673
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by sime2009 9y ago
"Laptop vendors are reported to be preparing to skip Cannon Lake and move to its planned successor Ice Lake." How does that work? Wouldn't the successor also be on a 10nm process? Or at least facing similar delays?
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by sime2009 9y ago
I really like the make approach but I want a modern updated implementation of the idea. With the domain of web development in mind, my wishlist of requirements looks something like this: * Written in JS and installable via npm (i.e. runs on
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by sime2009 10y ago
When it comes to Linux machines and servers, it has been a long time since I've seen one that didn't have some form of Python already installed on it by default. I don't think I can say the same for nodejs.
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by sime2009 10y ago
I'm working on a new terminal which takes a few cues from iTerm2 and also adds other unique features. It is not up to production level quality like iTerm2 but you are more than welcome to try it out. Extraterm -> https://
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by sime2009 10y ago
What exactly is the improvement here? a small code base? Is that all?
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by sime2009 10y ago
What is wrong with libwinpty.exe?
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by sime2009 10y ago
I'm busy exploring some of these ideas in my little project Extraterm https://github.com/sedwards2009/extraterm . This little gif demonstrates what it can do now: https://github.com/sedwards2009&#x
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by sime2009 10y ago
It isn't plainly obvious to the Apple and Microsoft UI designers...
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by sime2009 10y ago
True, the classic shell tools like the pipe can do a lot of this. But there are important differences. Firstly, to use the pipe you need to know in advance which output you want to keep/capture when you run the command. (e.g. by redire
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by sime2009 10y ago
> Another would be: the ability to manipulate streams (or whatever you'd like to call the content that flows through pipes). As in, replay a stream into some new process without re-executing the original. My terminal ( https:/&
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by sime2009 10y ago
The point in these examples is that it is often very useful to be able to reuse the previous output to craft another command, or to work in a more iterative way by massaging the text and getting feedback along the way.
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by sime2009 10y ago
> Does it need any UX innovation? It's for entering text and control characters, what else does it need to do? It could, for example let you operate and reuse the text it just displayed: https://raw.githubusercontent.com&

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