Hello Product Hunters! At ZEIT, we are obsessed about delivering the best developer experience in the industry. We built Hyper to be a beautiful, web-based, customisable terminal, that offers blazing fast performance. Today, we are excited to announce the third generation of Hyper! Features - WebGL renderer for faster rendering The renderer is the piece of code that draws actual pixels on the screen based on the state of the terminal. The original Hyper renderer used the DOM. For Hyper 3, we've completely rewritten the renderer to use WebGL and take advantage of GPU acceleration. - IPC Batching for speedier performance Running commands with very verbose output would cause Hyper to temporarily choke for a few seconds. Digging within the CPU profile, we noticed that the "renderer" process was spending most of its time handling an overwhelming amount of messages coming in from the main process. To make performance faster, for this version we batch the communication for a faster experience. For a more detailed read on this, check out our blog announcement: - Electron V3 upgrade Hyper 3 bumps the underlying Electron from V1 to V3. This brings in all the bugfixes and security enhancements made to Electron and its dependencies. - Faster Startup Time Hyper 3 brings in a decent boost in launch time (about 150ms on Linux, potentially better on other platforms). We achieved this by making two time-consuming processes during startup to be parallel. - Emoji Support You can now jazz up all your commit messages easily with a single command. If you're on MacOS, just hit `Command + Control + Space` and you'll see an emoji popup. - More Themes on Hyper Store Since the launch of Hyper 2, we have introduced more new themes into the Hyper Store. This means it's now even easier to customize your Hyper experience to your personality. Acknowledgments We would like to thank our entire community of contributors and users who made Hyper 3 possible. In particular, special mention of thanks to Daniel Imms, @Jerch and Benjamin Staneck, whose timely help, support and feedback have helped us launch the fastest Hyper ever. Please do try Hyper, and let us know what you think!

I've been using Hyper terminal over a year now, I prefer it over the system's terminal and some 3rd-party terminal apps like iTerm because of how pretty it looks and how customizable it is.

Pros:

• Aesthetically pleasing • Easy to configure • Customizable • A large variety of themes • A large variety of plugins • Fast

Cons:

• Some themes don't work properly • Some configurations do not apply

Love the extensibility too, you can also build your own plugins to add features you need

Pros:

the best terminal

Cons:

nothing

I really love Hyper! I don't use CLI that much, but when I do, I use Hyper

Automatic upvote because I use hyper everyday! The best terminal alternative for those on the bleeding edge... been using for two years and it has really helped my web dev progression.

How fast does this render compared to Alacritty?

It looks very slick!! I was wondering what’s the advantage of using hyper over existing terminals (e.g., iTerm2) and then I realized: This is cross-platform and any config work anywhere!

Bloat. Use tty instead. Btw I use arch

Works really well on both my Mac and Linux machines. A lot of plugins to extend the features.

Pros:

A beautiful cross platform terminal client.

Cons:

Since its based on electron, memory consumption might be an issue for some.

SwItch to using Hyper about 6 months ago now, super slick - great work 🙌🏻

Looooove Hyper! Thank you! 🙏⚡️✨✨

Looooove Hyper! Thank you! 🙏⚡️✨✨

Love it since ever. Thanks for the update!

Pros:

Fast, Easy, Custom.

Cons:

none afaik

I've been using this terminal for a long time.

Pros:

Unified experience across platforms

Cons:

None,

I started using Hyper for a couple months, but stopped because I hit some cases where it slowed down on me too much. Excited to try it again!

Hyper is the best! Been using in for-awhile now on the daily partnered with ZSH and its greatest.

looks and feels really good, is there a way to make windows work with hyper instead of cmd by default?

Looks beautiful, loads my custom oh-my-zsh immediately. Gave this a go on 2, but switched back to iterm2 because of little things. I think it was a lack of pane shortcuts, but, ready to give it another go.

Looks awesome. Can't install on my mac though so that makes it kind of difficult to use.

set bell to false, still ringing, that was all for me