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by billconan 1185 days ago
very cool! I wanted to create a terminal myself too. I was trying to implement a native solution, but the estimated workload is too much for me.

I'm also considering xterm.js, but do you see any performance issue using it?

Also, can it be easily customized?

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Hi billconan, I quickly made a video. You can see the styling possibilities there. https://youtu.be/fuHaLM2j-RM The video was made on a M1 MacBook Air. The shell is ZSH.

I don't feel that performance is an issue, it depends on what you mean by performance. Memory consumption is higher than with native terminals. From a speed perspective, I do not see any difference. You have to deal with the same problems as VSCode for example.

My colleagues have been using the terminal productively on Windows for more than a year. It runs stable, the performance is ok. As the autocompleter learns from your input, it becomes more and more personal and tuned to what you are doing. I don't want to miss it anymore.

Cogno is open source. You might want to take a look at it. The master branch is a mess at the moment. I have been rewriting Cogno for the last 4 months. When the current branch is on master, things should be easier.