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I’m trying it, and it does looks nice.
From their FAQ:
Q: What shells does Wave Terminal support?
A: We currently only support bash. […]Seems at least dishonest to advertise it as a “terminal” if it works only with a specific shell. It’s okay to have extra features enabled by escape codes emitted by the shell, but if it goes beyond that, I’d say it’s not just a terminal anymore.
It is a cross-platform terminal that supports only bash and only on Linux and MacOS
So, a browser frontend for bash… Nah, that sales pitch sucks (ram)
“modern”, when it comes to terminals, usually translates to Javascript / web / electron
We are used to badly optimized webapps but there’s some that definitely manage to be snappy wothout taking too much ressources
Not that I dont dislike electron anyway, but I’d hazard a guess that most of the jank we see in electron apps is more to do with javascript and overengineered web UI frameworks than the browser runtime. If it runs like shit in a browser then it wont be much better ported to electron.
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Kinda yes, sadly. However, at least they offer some reasoning for it like AI integration with the terminal.
You don’t need to make it an Electron app to have AI integration.
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And even if you did, why would you need Javascript to integrate that, just integrate it the same way the shell completion does.
Ditch Vim for quick updates.
GAAAAAAAASP
heresy
Looks like bloat to me
I will absolutely not use an electron terminal.
Looks like Electron. Oh boy…
Interesting concept, I like the design, but the workflow is rather odd and would take some getting used to. Also, things like the UI need some work on scrolling, like the Sudo connect window scrolling the password out of sight if you fail the password entry.
I’ve been looking for a terminal with better bookmark support; I use mRemoteNG on windows for my RDP/SSH work, and I haven’t been happy with any alternative on Linux that handles session bookmarks like that. I’m curious to try this.
the hell are terminal bookmarks?
I manage a lot of systems, so just click to open a ssh session in a new tab. I usually have shell aliases, but a bookmark that could set the title of the tab to the hostname and account for easier nav would be my goal. Being able to dynamically open tab groups too would be good, like if I have a dev/prod/SQL server for an app I could 1-click to open a group of 3 tabs
Well, there’s this if you want to use it in Linux, I’ve used it before, liked it well enough, but not paying for it so I removed it (It’s sort of crippled if run free). I personally use Konsole on KDE which works quite well. I’ve read and think that Konsole also allows multiple bookmarked connections. I haven’t really tested it myself, I have roughly 10 machines I log into daily so I may try that further.
Before I made the leap to Linux years ago, I loved using MRemoteNG. Simply hands down the best. IMHO
I tesed the client posted here by the OP. While it looks pretty nice, it suffers the same thing as others I’ve tried. Nothing beats the simplicity of the plain 'ol shell in Linux or in OSX. :)
I just finished my perfect st build after switching from kitty. So I’m not really interested in getting something even more bloated then what I used to use.
At least they aren’t going for the new user friendly marketing they were a few weeks back, as they have nothing that would of helped me as a new user a few years ago
I’m looking for a terminal like warp that’s Linux compatible and this initially looked promising but the comments on how bloated it is is discouraging.
“cross-platform” but it’s not available for the most popular developer OS (Windows) 🤔
Edit: most popular OS as per the Stack Overflow dev survey: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-technologies-operating-system
most popular among c# devs
Across all devs that fill out the Stack Overflow survey: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-technologies-operating-system
which is less responses than all linux distros + WSL
Even without WSL it’s basically the same portion of people using windows and using linux for personal use.
My kinda cross platform 🤘
Too fat and unnecessary. Just use the regular bash shell that comes with your distro.
Bash isn’t a terminal. It’s a shell. You can run Bash within XTerm, Gnome Terminal, Konsole, or even Windows Terminal.
Looks interesting, I will look into it. On first look it seems useful
Is there a competitor or is that the first of its kind?
Closest I can think of is Warp, although right now it’s still closed source and Mac only. If there are others I’ve missed I’d love to learn more!
Yeah, deal breaker :D I’m not interested in mac software
They do have Linux and Windows versions coming and claim they’re going to gradually open source it so there’s that, but yeah, doesn’t exactly inspire that much confidence lol
Warp has discoverability features that would actually convince me of using a “modern” terminal - like instant tooltips with documentation.
That said, call it trust issues, but I’ll never use a closed source terminal.
I’d like to see more user-friendly features like this that are terminal-agnostic. Manually checking manpages is so slow and fickle. Having the equivalent of an intellisense for the command line would be awesome.
Yup, I feel you. It’s something I’ve always wanted myself, and I find myself hoping the OSS alternatives eventually implement something similar. For now I just make do with things like tealdeer and whatnot.
Edit: Just stumbled upon navi, the interactivity looks a lot closer to what we want than tldr and friends at least
there is Inshellisense
I tried it for a few minutes, but every time I hit ctrl+c it stops showing tooltips. Looks good though
I think Tabby is a similar project, but personally I spin up and throw out terminals very liberally. Tabby had a horrendous launch time, something more than a second which constantly bothered me while trying to work. I’d love to see how quick this is though!
+1 on tabby. Another nice feature tabby has is sync of secrets and settings. It is not very resource efficient, but it’s still nice.
