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Experimental Terminal platform built on WebKit + node.js. Currently only for Mac and Windows, though the prototype works 90% in any WebKit browser.

31 mentions on Hacker News by 29 people: 2 stories, 29 comments · first 2011-05-12 · latest 2026-02-14

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  1. …possible. Clearly the issue is not building it, but adoption. I don’t have an answer for that. https://github.com/unconed/TermKit
    comment by dwb · 2026-02-14 · in Building a TUI is easy now
  2. …See the list here: https://github.com/hoeck/schirm I think the most popular was TermKit ( https://github.com/unconed/TermKit , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30517205 ). Maybe the most successful such attempts is DomTerm (…
    comment by albertzeyer · 2024-05-16 · in State of the Terminal
  3. …being able to quickly show a PNG or graph a function? Maybe it's an idea whose time has come. [1] https://github.com/unconed/TermKit
    comment by rogual · 2023-12-10 · in Waveterm
  4. Take a look at TermKit - https://github.com/unconed/TermKit Long abandoned but I’d love something like this. Someone I know tried to revive it but Node has changed so much that they gave up. I would donate to an effort to revive it.
    comment by timmattison · 2022-01-15 · in Rich: A Python library for rich text and formatting in the terminal
  5. …including some HTML in it, improved auto-completion, and many other ideas. For example: - TermKit ( https://github.com/unconed/TermKit , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2559734 ) - GateOne ( https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne ) -…
    comment by albertzeyer · 2021-05-25 · in Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal
  6. …expressive would be a huge win. You might be familiar with TermKit[0] which also tried this. [0]: https://github.com/unconed/TermKit
    comment by tree_of_item · 2018-08-25 · in The Future of Notebooks: Lessons from JupyterCon
  7. Unfortunately TermKit is effectively dead, with the last commit being almost 6 years ago - https://github.com/unconed/TermKit
    comment by thanatos_dem · 2017-12-13 · in Fish: A user-friendly command line shell for macOS, Linux, etc
  8. …an animated cursor. See TermKit for some more tought put into a graphically-enabled terminal: https://github.com/unconed/TermKit
    comment by paxcoder · 2017-01-29 · in Hyper – A terminal emulator based on JavaScript, HTML and CSS
  9. …TermKit[0], but that didn't get finished and I don't recall hearing about any newer efforts. [0]: https://github.com/unconed/TermKit
    comment by ajkjk · 2017-01-25 · in Shell Has a Forth-Like Quality
  10. https://github.com/unconed/TermKit or https://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/ TermKit is another terminal app from 2011 designed to modernize the command line experience. Sadly, I don't think it's being worked on anymore.
    comment by callumprentice · 2017-01-06 · in Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
  11. https://github.com/unconed/TermKit https://github.com/breuleux/terminus https://github.com/substack/exterminate
    comment by ivank · 2015-09-06 · in Black Screen: A modern terminal emulator based on Electron
  12. …like that. I think it'll be a really hard sell if we have to abandon our unix pipes entirely. [1] https://github.com/unconed/TermKit Previous hackernews discussion around termkit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2559734
    comment by josephg · 2014-10-10 · in Rich Command Shells
  13. There was TermKit ( https://github.com/unconed/TermKit ) but the author has stopped working on it.
    comment by rogual · 2014-09-08 · in Modernizing “less”
  14. …can be useful in some cases. I really liked the Git functionalities. [1] http://mosh.mit.edu/ [2] https://github.com/unconed/TermKit
    comment by krmtl · 2014-06-09 · in Xiki: The Command Revolution
  15. Reminds me of https://github.com/unconed/TermKit I really don't want or need this. It's solving a problem I don't have.
    comment by aroman · 2014-06-09 · in Xiki: The Command Revolution
  16. https://github.com/unconed/TermKit
    comment by Raphael · 2014-05-21 · in Pixel graphics in terminal
  17. …http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology [2]: http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/ and https://github.com/unconed/TermKit [3]: http://www.iterm2.com/images.html
    comment by jspiros · 2014-04-06 · in HTerm – The Graphical Terminal
  18. …time and the demo[2] seemed promising, but looks like it hasn't been updated in ~2 years now. [1] https://github.com/unconed/TermKit [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Z5dnlfcls
    comment by caseyohara · 2013-06-06 · in Colout – add colors to a text stream in your terminal
  19. Your Terminal.app reborn example sort of reminds me of https://github.com/unconed/TermKit
    comment by mcrittenden · 2013-05-01 · in Adium Redesigned
  20. > Now what I really want is an xterm that can render HTML/CSS. Have a look at https://github.com/unconed/TermKit
    comment by aGHz · 2012-12-06 · in DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator
  21. Cool, it's different from other shells out there. I am still waiting on TermKit to become 1.0. https://github.com/unconed/TermKit#readme
    comment by nadinengland · 2012-09-12 · in Xiki: A shell console with GUI features.
  22. Also see https://github.com/unconed/TermKit/
    comment by m_eiman · 2012-08-11 · in Next generation Unix pipe by Alex Larsson
  23. …you heard of TermKit? It was an experiment in intertwining graphical and command-line interfaces: https://github.com/unconed/TermKit/
    comment by ricardobeat · 2012-05-31 · in Command Line and User Friendliness
  24. TermKit seems like it could do that nicely: https://github.com/unconed/TermKit
    comment by rrreese · 2012-02-07 · in Tty.js - a terminal for your browser using socket.io
  25. Yes its here: https://github.com/unconed/TermKit I still think the idea is great. This guys should work together instead of making yet another competing project.
    comment by wladimir · 2011-12-01 · in Ivo – a reimagined Unix terminal system
  26. It would be great to see TermKit[1] implemented in a demo like this. [1] https://github.com/unconed/TermKit
    comment by cmwright · 2011-11-12 · in HTML5 terminal
  27. …git@github.com:unconed/TermKit.git --recursive', which didn't work for me. What worked was 'git clone git://github.com/unconed/TermKit.git --recursive'. Finally after all that, I just see 'You cannot use this version of the application…
    comment by ZoFreX · 2011-05-18 · in TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
  28. …what you mean. If you like, you can describe your idea in more detail and open an issue on github: https://github.com/unconed/TermKit/issues
    comment by unconed · 2011-05-18 · in TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
  29. Pretty interesting! I also happened upon this today: https://github.com/unconed/TermKit It's a new command-line GUI.
    comment by benatkin · 2011-05-18 · in A Unix shell written in Google Go