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7 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 19 critical, out of 38 comments about the project. Thread score -0.24.
Privacy: 0 for, 5 againstPerformance: 0 for, 5 againstIdea: 2 for, 2 againstPricing: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 against
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Free and open source with no login required
From 2 comments
> We don’t require an email, login, or payment to use our terminal (it is free as in speech and as in beer). This excites me. I was excited to try a new terminal last week and I…
zerojames on HN> What if your command line terminal could display more than just text? That’s crazy right (I can hear the screams of thousands of graybeard sysadmins). The screams are because…
yjftsjthsd-h on HN
Polished website and thoughtful delivery
From 2 comments
> We don’t require an email, login, or payment to use our terminal (it is free as in speech and as in beer). This excites me. I was excited to try a new terminal last week and I…
zerojames on HNI’m not in the market for a new terminal right now, but I dig your announcement: you explain the license, the languages in the stack, and the future revenue model, which are my…
sneak on HN
Objections
Remote helper installs software on SSH connection without prompting
From 2 comments
> […] I ssh'd to another machine and was slightly disconcerted to see it installing software on first connection? That sounds really disturbing and immediately turns me off this…
elaus on HNIt absolutely should not be running commands on a remote host without prompting first!
smcleod on HN
Non-ASCII characters fail to render
From 1 comment
I'm in the same boat as many -- not particularly excited by the idea of a new terminal, but curious enough to take a look and (unusually) a smidge interested after seeing the…
andrewaylett on HN
Electron is heavy and uses lots of memory and CPU
From 3 comments
170+ MB resident after subtracting shared pages to show a single terminal. Added a couple more tabs and it grew to 200 without any other interactions. seems like a lot to me.
audidude on HNWhy are there no native apps anymore today? Why does everyone ride the Electron bloatware?
nodomain on HNThe ui looks extremely cluttered when all I want is a terminal. I am not using most of the features most of the time. Also, this is a frontend for bash, which I don't use. So…
vrighter on HN
Only supports bash, zsh not yet supported
From 2 comments
The ui looks extremely cluttered when all I want is a terminal. I am not using most of the features most of the time. Also, this is a frontend for bash, which I don't use. So…
vrighter on HNi'd love to figure out what is causing this as we haven't been able to repro it. if you don't mind adding a comment to the issue with anything novel or interesting in your…
sawka on HN
Cluttered UI and unnecessary features
From 3 comments
The ui looks extremely cluttered when all I want is a terminal. I am not using most of the features most of the time. Also, this is a frontend for bash, which I don't use. So…
vrighter on HNI tried it, it’s nice overall, I thought it’s CPU intensive but it turned out it’s because I have htop running in wave terminal, running it outside however seems to be normal. My…
tamimio on HN> terminal DevEx across the board and fix all sorts of terminal micro-frustrations I believe you believe this such a thing exists - I'd like to read/hear your thoughts on this -…
CoolCold on HN
Requests
Zsh support
From 2 comments
zsh support and international character support are our top two issues right now. I know the intl chars can work, we just didn't do enough international testing before launch.…
sawka on HNZsh is not yet supported, it's very high on our list of priorities!
esimkowitz on HN
International character support
From 2 comments
I'm in the same boat as many -- not particularly excited by the idea of a new terminal, but curious enough to take a look and (unusually) a smidge interested after seeing the…
andrewaylett on HNI'm not sure "international" is the right characterisation (sorry, not sorry). "Non-ASCII", perhaps? Or explicitly list which codepages you do support? It's not like there are no…
andrewaylett on HN
Windows support
From 2 comments
I wish Windows had as many good terminals as MacOS does.
andrewstuart on HN"Cross-platform" but works only with MacOS and Linux, you should change the wording until it is cross-platform.
AbraKdabra on HN
Prompt before remote helper installation
From 1 comment
It absolutely should not be running commands on a remote host without prompting first!
smcleod on HN
Questions
Why Electron rather than Tauri or Wails
From 1 comment
> We’re proudly built on Electron (just like VSCode, Slack, and Discord) with all of the network code and heavy lifting done in a local Go backend. This enables us to deliver a…
mdaniel on HN
Why venture backed
From 1 comment
why is a terminal venture backed
whalesalad on HN
Does rendering stream drop frames affect scrolling
From 1 comment
> the frontend can drop frames, while the Go backend is buffering the stream Surely that's not great. Dropped frames are terrible for following what's happening on the screen and…
cassianoleal on HN
Alternatives named
iTerm
From 1 comment
> so I went back to the default macOS one I find iTerm to be the standard among macOS developers.
solarkraft on HN
Warp
From 1 comment
Love this. Though I was cautious initially - just the OSS route with "true" free was very welcome. Out of curiosity - I was surprised there was no mention of Warp.dev here (which…
flashgordon on HN
Alacritty
From 1 comment
For me iTerm was definitely too slow, alacritty is IMO a bit faster. Also heard some good things about Kitty, but that has too many bells and whistles for me. But nothing can…
SushiHippie on HN
WezTerm
From 1 comment
Just in case you haven't tried it and want another option, Wezterm runs anywhere and does pretty much everything. But not AI/webapp stuff.
AndyKluger on HN