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by amelius 38 days ago
Terminal is slowly becoming a full featured web browser.
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Always has been meme incoming. Also, more seriously, the purpose of a tool is to do a job. The question becomes whether this tool can be made useful. I.. honestly don't know, but I will be finding out soon:D
You asked for it…

https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl

Or firefox flavoured https://www.brow.sh/
Heh that's ... truly the worst of both worlds.
Or Terminal is already a full featured web browser?

https://hyper.is/

Isn't there a Terminal that renders everything with React?

Super slow, but I guess thats what web devs want.

There are terminal libraries that do this:

https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

Which is what Claude Code CLI uses (or was using?) and it caused many issues such as flickering, thrashing, and latency.

Do you one better.

Rendered as instanced quads in 3d space. Tens of millions at >60fps, and an entire class of "grid based text rendering" evaporates.

https://github.com/tikimcfee/glyph3d-js

You know, Fox turned into a hardcore sex channel so gradually, I didn't even notice.
And rightfully so! \o/
It's inevitable
It does, yeah.
i have been waiting for this.