Oh maybe that's the whole point. They want "it's javascript all the way down".
I think I'd literally rather use a shell built on actual turtles. A turtle-shell, if you will.
Additionally, this annoyance probably has more to do with the fact that Electron is used by developers for other developers. If it would be used to replace Excel the rage would probably be less pronounced. I'm still wondering what would happen though, because of all the subtle ways in which the UI experience would be broken for someone who's used to Excel.
Its a clear example of "We can do it but should we do we?" The answer is NO!
I personnaly think a terminal based on web technologies is not something I would use, but if people are happy to use it, as soon as they are aware of the tradeoffs, why not?
This comment (though probably by mistake) manages to perfectly illustrate the "reinventing things that we don't even understand" mindset that's going on in most of tech.
(Also, there exist terminals written in C++ with Qt, and QtWidgets has had CSS support for custom styling for at least 10 years, probably much longer.)
/me goes back to emacs
macOS built-in Terminal.app has had transparency (even varying transparency for focused vs background windows) for years.
Edit: oh, maybe you were being sarcastic? It's been a long day.
I understand the appeal of having html/css hyperdynamism everywhere.
And at the same time I don't want to pay the price to the point that I prefer living in lotech linux land. I value frugal over potential flexibility these days.
I told that often, but the other day I booted win9x (on a pentium 3 or less, some MB of ram, maybe 64) and ran an old copy of turbo pascal 7 (dos). That thing was flying. It had 80% of what I wanted (including, hear this, ascii shadowed floating editing windows.. talk about overfancy) and used zero resources.
Today to have that kind of interactions you'd need a somehow recent quad core and 4GB+ of ram. All that mostly for a bit of eye candy (css may be of some use to decorate tokens/entities to give additional info, but I rarely see that).
The compilers and IDEs from that era were truly pieces of art. I also remember TopSpeed Modula-2 that also included its own task scheduler for real time DOS (using clock interrupts, I guess).