[thenomad]

Erm... What is it?

I've clicked through several pages and still don't know, aside from the fact that apparently it extends the command line in some way.

But I might just be missing something.

[bmurphy1976]

It says right at the top of the home page, it's a Terminal emulator, it just happens to be written with JavaScript and HTML.

It would be nice of the title of the HN post said this (Hyper 1.0 Released, A Terminal Emulator built using Web Technologies), but it's easy to figure out once you go to the home or github page.

I fault the OP for the poor title, not the project.

[thenomad]

You're absolutely right - I missed that.

BTW, it might just be the fact I have scripts blocked, but it doesn't appear to say that on the homepage at hyper.is - just the Github page.

[rsp1984]

1000x This.

I'm really sooo tired of projects being introduced through Github pages which have all kinds of non-descript change-lists and commit SHAs on them but lack even the most fundamental kind of information, like what the heck does it do, especially when there's about 100 other pieces of software out there with the same name.

In this case the project does actually have a proper website (which btw. is nowhere mentioned on the Github page). Why not just link to the website instead? Is that somehow not cool enough any more?

[siddboots]

> In this case the project does actually have a proper website (which btw. is nowhere mentioned on the Github page). Why not just link to the website instead? Is that somehow not cool enough any more?

I can't sympathize at all with your sense of exasperation. I know you feel like you are arguing for a cause, but you're also being condescending.

The purpose of this post isn't to introduce a project, but to announce a significant milestone version release. With that in mind, it makes a lot more sense to link to the announcement post on github. It includes plain language descriptions of the changes, download links, plenty of screenshots, and hardly any SHAs. The website is mentioned at the very top of the main github page, as well as in several other places.

[rsp1984]

The website is mentioned at the very top of the main github page, as well as in several other places.

Yea, but it's mentioned nowhere on the page that was linked.

[teach]

According to their site[0], Hyper is a terminal emulator (like xterm) written 100% in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is released under the MIT License.

This is definitely not obvious from the release notes.

[0] https://hyper.is/

[tvon]

FWIW, if you get linked to a github release page then click on the project name at the top and you will get the main repository view with a short description (above the file list) and the full README below that.

[jsjohnst]

It's a shell (think iTerm2 like) built using Electron (aka web technologies in a native wrapper).

[burke]

It's not a shell, it's a terminal emulator.

A shell is the program that handles the words you type into your terminal emulator.

[jsjohnst]

Mea culpa. Obviously knew that, just said the wrong thing. Thanks!

[loansindi]

It's a terminal emulator that's configurable/extendable with JS, HTML and CSS.

[johns]

https://hyper.is