Wterm – Terminal Emulator for the Web

(wterm.dev)

34 points | by m3h 7 hours ago

4 comments

  • simjnd 8 minutes ago

    All the commits and releases happened in an extremely short timeframe about a month ago and then nothing.

    With AI it's so easy to work on something for a couple days and make it seem production-ready before losing any interest and moving on to something else. I may be wrong but it seems like that's what is happening at Vercel Labs. Pumping out new radically different things, and seeing what sticks.

    I wish such kinds of experiments clearly labeled what it was instead of trying to look production-ready. It coming from a big player like Vercel can especially inspire a false sense of trust, when it was just messing around with AI around some idea and then moving on.

    • ahsillyme 1 hour ago

      I thought that there was a name clash: https://web.archive.org/web/20071010015641/https://martin.an... but I can't actually remember what that that wterm was. Not the same I would imagine. (edit: what I was thinking about was https://sourceforge.net/projects/wterm/)

      • dboreham 51 minutes ago

        Unfortunately the browser still can't make the kind of network connection needed to transport a terminal session to a remote computer natively. afaik all the tunneling solutions are pretty clunky/insecure.

        • jarym 9 minutes ago

          What do you mean - WebTransport can do a lot...

        • williamstein 1 hour ago

          Wow, finally an alternative to xterm.js?