gotty VS polygott

(FYI: A fun manual remote terminal. Totally insecure, but fun.)

Thank you for all the suggestions. I tried some of these and decided to go with GoTTY: https://github.com/yudai/gotty

GoTTY: Share your terminal as a web application Caddy

I love the command line and I am not fan of HTML. I recently learned about web terminals ( gotty ), got excited and I thought to myself: couldn't it be a new (old!) paradigm for web apps? This would be especially useful for back office, administration tasks.

It is absolutely possible. Use Lynx for web browsing, use TMUX for split screen, use BC for calculator, use KHAL for calendar and of course use RTV for Reddit. :-) Here is a great list of CLI apps: https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps Here are some of my favorites though: - https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/timewarrior - https://github.com/IonicaBizau/idea - https://github.com/jeffkowalski/geeknote - https://github.com/insanum/sncli - https://github.com/visit1985/mdp - https://github.com/astefanutti/decktape - https://github.com/insanum/gcalcli - https://github.com/pimutils/khal - https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/ - https://github.com/zquestz/s - https://github.com/yudai/gotty - https://github.com/axiros/terminal_markdown_viewer - https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in - https://github.com/schachmat/wego - https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

There are programs like gotty that can show terminal output in a webpage. Some alternatives, https://alternativeto.net/software/gotty/ Like ttyd looks promising as well.

Dockerfile root@picard:~/Projects/gotty# more Dockerfile FROM library/busybox as downloader ADD https://github.com/yudai/gotty/releases/latest/download/gotty_linux_amd64.tar.gz /download/gotty.tar.gz RUN cd /download \ && tar -xf /download/gotty.tar.gz \ && chmod a+x /download/gotty FROM library/alpine:latest RUN apk add libc6-compat COPY --from=downloader /download/gotty /usr/local/bin/gotty CMD /usr/local/bin/gotty

I'm not actually using a library I wrote or am working on, I'm hoping to use gotty on this server, which has been setup for go get and does work when I run the same commands in the bash script manually after ssh'ing in, it just doesn't work when I run it from the command as a startup cloud-init script when the server is defined from terraform. Am I missing something?

> For context, I'm referencing our (legacy) base image for projects on Replit: Polygott (https://github.com/replit/polygott/).

May I ask why you didn't use something like Ansible to build such a complex image? With appropriate package version pinning (which it's the real crux here) it should work well enough to get a reproducible build.

I understand it would already have been something different from a pure Dockerfile so it's not that fair to compare buuut...

Look into how repl.it built their platform, especially their polygott Docker image. You can find out plenty of information about how these systems are built if you delve deeper into their ecosystem.

Repl.it has an in-progress OCaml repl option sort of hidden away because it's "WIP"; and by WIP I mean it works for editing and saving is basically broken otherwise and has been for a few years (according to Sys.ocaml_version it's using OCaml 4.05 from 2017) because of a claim of focusing on core features instead of more languages. Though that didn't stop them from adding other languages since, including adding ReasonML (via NodeJS and BuckleScript) since then, so the argument is bullshit and they'll probably never get it working.

If you look at the repo under the gen directory you’ll see the Dockerfile template. It builds on the Ubuntu base image (line 6 FROM Ubuntu...) which means you will get a bash shell (default login shell) in each container built from it.

You said the spat was about him "allegedly open sourcing their project". How could he do that when it was already open source (at https://github.com/replit/polygott)?

Slightly off-topic - what is a secure way to run arbitrary code in arbitrary languages in a server? I know replit's polygott docker container allows it.

https://github.com/replit/polygott/