I'm skeptical of the value of electron-ified applications when fully native alternatives suffice. However, ignoring that, there are a few (pretty severe) problems with this release:

* The .deb package seems to install everything in /opt. This seems to be pretty common practice for electron apps and isn't a huge deal, except for the fact that a wrapper executable/link isn't installed anywhere else on the system. As a result, I had to go looking for the install directory and invoke hyper as a fully-qualified path (i.e., /opt/Hyper/hyper).

* Hyper tries to run `npm prune && npm install --production` on every startup, which (naturally) fails when the user doesn't have node (much less npm) installed globally.

* Most control modifiers don't work on Linux at all, making it impossible to work inside of programs like nano, alpine, etc.

* Throughput seems to be an issue. Running `cat /dev/zero` locked the entire application up.

These problems are understandable considering the (often unappreciated) complexity of terminals, but they're also surprising in a 1.0.0 release.

IshKebab

> I'm skeptical of the value of electron-ified applications when fully native alternatives suffice.

Me too, although in the case of terminal apps, they really haven't moved on since the 70s. How many support images? Completion popups? Browsable history? Current directory widget? Collapsible output?

Honestly if it takes some insane over-engineering to get some actual innovation in terminal apps I'm all for it! And when I say "innovation" I mean "obvious features that should have been there decades ago".

sime2009

I'm busy exploring some of these ideas in my little project Extraterm https://github.com/sedwards2009/extraterm .

This little gif demonstrates what it can do now: https://github.com/sedwards2009/extraterm/raw/master/docs/ed...

Some more demos of its features are here: https://github.com/sedwards2009/extraterm/blob/master/docs/t...

It is still early days for Extraterm although I use it myself daily (mostly on Windows and Linux). It too is built on Electron. It makes it possible to try out ideas relatively quickly and grants access to a megaton of 3rd party libraries and tools.