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Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal

51 points by ghub-mmulet

by ghub-mmulet

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I made a built-from scratch Wayland Compositor to display any guidance app in the terminal! I think there is a lot of unexplored potential in custom Wayland compositors, a lot of really cool things you can embed existing applications into! So, I started with embedding apps into the terminal because that is the easiest input/output (output is just utf-8 and I use the great `chafa` library for that, and I just read from stdin for the input).
If you have any other ideas for cool Wayland compositors, let me know. I purposely wrote 80% the app in Typescript to appeal to the most developers and attract cool contributions (I do all drawing with the familiar Canvas2D api, so if there is interest, I can also fork this out into a cool Terminal canvas, let me know!)

by tri2820

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This is such a cool project. Personally, I think there are so many interesting use cases that can be built on top of Wayland, like https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield and this

by alkh

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This is so cool, thanks for sharing! Having this on a Mac would be great but I understand that this might be a huge undertaking :)

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by Forgret

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by Forgret

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Wow your project is really impressive there were similar programs before but they didn't approach this so much. Your project really gives you the opportunity to do your work without the limitations that others had.