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An Electron terminal with a EULA backed by two venture capitals. What's the world coming to?

I'd rather keep something as crucial as a terminal emulator open-source, and with a latency within the hundreds of milliseconds. For the fancy remoting capabilities there's Emacs.

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I use VSCode's integrated terminal all the time and its performance and latency is indistinguishable from Gnome Terminal.

This appears to be open source. But I don't know how you could make a viable business out of this. I mean it looks nice, but nice enough to pay for? I doubt it. And it's free...

What's their business plan?

> What's their business plan?

Mumble wango cloud mumble collaboration features...

But basically, to burn through millions in VC money I think.

It's buried in the FAQ:

> In the future we may launch cloud features to support terminal sharing, shared workspaces, shared playbooks, and terminal backup/sync.

Presumably these cloud features will come with a subscription.

But yeah, the VC backing combined with no solid business model makes me wary. It seems unlikely that the community will be super excited to start building integrations and extensions here to benefit some SV bros.

"Shared playbooks" so like scripts? Isn't that just scripts?

Maybe. Playbook is also the precise word Ansible uses to describe automating tasks across multiple servers in their particular way. So it could be a hint about Ansible-like features.

> What's their business plan?

"telemetry"

I hope your vim doesn't take hundreds of milliseconds for anything, other than possibly opening huge files.

I said I want a latency within the hundreds of milliseconds. vim and most terminal emulators are well within this threshold, a very complex UI in Electron is not.

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