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[–] infinitepcg@lemmy.world 58 points 11 months ago

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

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 11 months ago

"built on an open web framework...."

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

[–] starman@programming.dev 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately this terminal emulator uses electron, but otherwise looks nice

[–] Andy@programming.dev 54 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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

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

[–] lemann@lemmy.one 11 points 11 months ago

it's got telemetry on by default.

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

[–] axo10tl@sopuli.xyz 8 points 11 months ago

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

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Electron is a DEALBREAKER!

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Veraxus@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are you implying that there is anything else that matters?

[–] superb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 11 months ago
[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 12 points 11 months ago

Quickly edit code on a local or remote machine with the same editor that powers VSCode.

so it's vscode, but not. you can just install an extention to get remote abilities.

[–] superbirra@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

lol, no thank you

[–] zerofk@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

I … Wha…. WHY??

[–] MarkPotatoes@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’ll have a look to this, a VScode editor like for remote can be handful sometime

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

so... vscode? you can install an extention for remote connections (made by MS)

[–] einsteinx2@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

Vscode even has a terminal built in haha

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

Wezterm or death. I would have chosen Alacritty, if pasting in Vim wasn't broken.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Personally I am waiting for the warp terminal to try it out: https://www.warp.dev/