It’s really simple, it’s a container containing a virtual os, which runs a browser and a webserver to run the app. The app connects to several external api services to do it’s thing.
It’s like, really simple!
I‘m very scared that this might actually be the case in some apps out there.
If they’re running a virtual OS in a container, they’re doing it very wrong. Containers and VMs are quite different, even on a Windows host.
I‘m not sure I understand. At least docker containers have their own os, mostly alpine linux. Dunno if that applies to other apllications.
Nah, a container isn’t running nearly as much as an entire OS. Not by a long shot. The Kernel isn’t there at all and the entire device stack is gone. Most don’t even have an init system running like systemd. They’re closer to a chroot in a single terminal than running an entire OS.
The OS flavor in a container is mostly about what flavor of supporting tools are available inside the container. Almost everything else is a thin wrapper making calls in to your host OS or container services.
It probably was very simple for the kid who wrote it, just import everything and write a couple of lines to use all this stuff that already exists!
You left “sudo” off that last frame.
The script will prompt you.
Some of those can be good if you want a single command to install on any OS.
Gets the job done, but shoudn’t and isn’t intended for non-programmer end user.
I’m not mad at small programs or developers with not much time to setup a distribution pipeline, they should be praised for their work at the program itself. But different OSes have different places to unpack a program and this allows simple updates, we should respect that for consistency at user end. Expect it’s Windows, which is a unspecified mess anyway, let’s go and unpack everything raw on C:\ or into user directory.
How much you wanna bet the “dev” doesn’t realise chromium is a dependency, in this scenario?
I saw a terminal app a few weeks ago that had AI INTEGRATION of all things.
Warp.dev! It’s the best terminal I’ve used so far, and the best use of AI as well! It’s extremely useful with some AI help for the thousands of small commands you know exist but rarely uses. And it’s very well implemented.
I don’t understand what is the benefit here over a terminal with a good non-LLM based autocomplete. I understand that, theoretically, LLMs can produce better autocomplete, but idk if it is really that big of a difference with terminal commands. I guess its a small shortcut to have the AI there to ask questions, too. It’s good to hear its well implemented, though.
Which one ?
It’s about the third newest one in the list now.
came to mind. It uses web technology to make a terminal. I’ve never used it, so I have no idea if it works well or not.
I stopped using iTerm because it was using too much power while I was on battery. Kitty is by far the best terminal.
Kitty is really popular. I’m using foot, as long a terminal has the basic functionality I need, best latency is what I care about.
