I had high hopes for this project. Particularly considering the fact default terminal in Windows is a total crap and it seems Microsoft is not interested at all to fix the problems (yeah, I know, they are saying they are working on it but they haven’t delivered in 3 years, how hard it is to add unlimited scroll bar option? Or hide scroll bar?. I wish I could’ve run gnome-terminal in Windows.)
Back to hyper. Hyper disappointed me.
1) Text wrapping is a such important feature in modern terminal emulators I cannot live without. They added text reflow in 2.0 as far as I checked. But when you use you would see it is complete disaster. Text does not wrap sometime. Sometime it completely erased. So long story short it is completely buggy.
2) Start up time is horrible. Electron based app should generally design a background service and a UI process. This way when you launch UI it would be way faster than cold start up. I do this for chrome, slack, discordapp, etc. I wish they had better architecture and was a option to enable background thread or service.
They've delivered a lot (much of it WSL-driven now that Linux apps run inside it more often), even if they haven't added your particular wishlist items.
For revamping a part of Windows that had almost died on the vine, they seem to be doing a fascinating job, over the last few years, even within Windows' strong mandate to maintain backward compatibility at all costs.
"2) Start up time is horrible. Electron based app should generally design a background service and a UI process. This way when you launch UI it would be way faster than cold start up. I do this for chrome, slack, discordapp, etc. I wish they had better architecture and was a option to enable background thread or service.
"
I don't even know where to begin with this.
So, the suggestion for "the stack for my thing is so large and deep that it takes forever to startup" is not "hey, maybe don't do that" or "hey, maybe we should find a way to optimize", it's "make sure it's always warm".
I don't even begin to understand why this is a world we want to live in.
Back to hyper. Hyper disappointed me.
1) Text wrapping is a such important feature in modern terminal emulators I cannot live without. They added text reflow in 2.0 as far as I checked. But when you use you would see it is complete disaster. Text does not wrap sometime. Sometime it completely erased. So long story short it is completely buggy.
2) Start up time is horrible. Electron based app should generally design a background service and a UI process. This way when you launch UI it would be way faster than cold start up. I do this for chrome, slack, discordapp, etc. I wish they had better architecture and was a option to enable background thread or service.