58 points

I’m not an electron hater, but a terminal in electron sounds like a parody.

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“built on an open web framework…”

hard pass then. Why the hell would I want to open a browser instance for a terminal???

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Unfortunately this terminal emulator uses electron, but otherwise looks nice

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No Zsh support for now, and maybe no user fonts?

And a warning: it’s got telemetry on by default.

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it’s got telemetry on by default.

Very, very hard pass. Might even blow out my suspension doing so

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Backed by VC, so you know they’re just waiting for an exit

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Electron is a DEALBREAKER!

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Cross platform, a long as it’s mac or linux lol.

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Are you implying that there is anything else that matters?

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11 points

Plan9

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What the fuck does it actually do, and what is one use case?

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Well it collects data from you, and one use case for your data is allowing a nice 💰 exit for the venture capital -backed company building it.

Other than that, not a whole lot that’s worth yet another “powered by open web standards” Electron piece of shit

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