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Wterm – Terminal Emulator for the Web

36 points by m3h ago | 8 comments

simjnd |next [-]

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.

kmaitreys |root |parent [-]

Probably some tokenmaxxing competition between the employees. The whole company seems under some kind of AI psychosis.

ahsillyme |next |previous [-]

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 |next |previous [-]

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 |root |parent [-]

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

williamstein |previous [-]

Wow, finally an alternative to xterm.js?

nacs |root |parent |next [-]

Ghostty-web exists and is even API compatible with xterm.js (same engine that powers Ghostty):

https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web/

In fact, it looks like wterm's 12KB plugin doesnt offer full term emulation and uses ghostty to support everything else:

https://wterm.dev/ghostty

williamstein |root |parent |previous [-]

This seems like a useful discussion of the relationship between wterm and xtermjs: https://github.com/agent-of-empires/agent-of-empires/issues/...