Can we all try to bring back upterm?

I believe I'm not the only one who is using the terminal as a web developer.

With that said, I'm always trying to find new terminal applications that are going to give me that little boost as a developer.

Looking up, while ago I discovered this. The Upterm project.

I was impressed. I was impressed because of the simplicity but also, the new tone was giving while I was executing commands.

Writing this post to see how we can re-start this project and get it back to life.

I do hope that you guys have the same concerns as me and that we can together try to bring back the upterm in a stable and working process.

Here is the GitHub Repo that has been archived:
https://github.com/railsware/upterm

Let me know you're though on this, and we can try to continue together this much-underrated project!

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Comments

[Fernando B 🚀]

I don't think you'll get many people to download and use a terminal based on electron. Most terminals use minimal system resources. With that being said there are quite a few terminals out there. Upterm autocomplete can probably be supplemented with fish shell autocomplete.

[Kyriakos Michael]

I do believe that performance is a key metric!
I'm mostly referring to the Interface that term had with a static input field and most distinguished terminal execution.

I would love to see a project to apply this kind of Interface on iterm for example!

[Fernando B 🚀]

Are you talking about the popup as you type, or something else?

[Robin Kretzschmar]

I didn't looked into it that deep, but from playing around with it half an hour after setting it up in a similar way I use zsh, I came to the same conclusion: it is much slower in comparison to my zsh setup (on an arch box).
simple find command on a directory with 250 files and no subfolders used twice as much system resources with upterm.

[Heiker]

It would be interesting if we could make something to include "gui components" into any cli. The people at repl.it have some interesting ideas.

Those demos come from this blog post.

[Kyriakos Michael]

I like your Points. Let's see what we can do about it!

Would you prefer this in a new Terminal or use it as a plugin/extension to an existing one?

I'm mostly referring to iterm since it is what I'm using right now.

[Heiker]

If you know about a terminal that has a plugin system capable of doing something like that, that would be lovely. Though it would have to be cross-platform 'cause i'm using linux.

[Kyriakos Michael]

No, I don't have in mind anything like that. But, we can try and build it somehow.

[Lucas Trevisan]

I was thinking about this today and I don't know this already exists. I want to integrate many features using CLUI with neovim. I love working on the terminal and I love to have graphical features as well!