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chat
- Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly
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Charm – tools to make the command line glamorous
TUIs over ssh/telnet can be a lot of fun. Especially in cases where multiple people can interact with each other on the server. It simplifies the programming model as you only have one state on the backend that you render to multiple connections. Syncing up everyone becomes trivial. You can also use some React concepts, like rendering a virtual TUI and sending just the right set of minimal escape sequences back to the user to bring their display up to date.
A few months ago I implemented a telnet chat server[0] for fun and it was surprisingly easy to do so. Even by using a wasm vm that I was still working on at the same time.
[0]: https://github.com/lunatic-solutions/chat
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Launch HN: Lunatic (YC W21) – An Erlang Inspired WebAssembly Platform
We are investing a lot of effort into making Lunatic feel native to the particular language and ecosystem. If you look at the Rust chat server we built in Lunatic (https://github.com/lunatic-solutions/chat), it fully integrates with cargo. You just run your typical “cargo run” command, it will compile the app to wasm and use lunatic to run it. If you want to run your test, you can just do “cargo test”.
wasm-bindgen is necessary only because it’s really hard right now to merge the wasm world and the JS one in the browser. We have the advantage here of staying out of the browser.
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How I built a telnet chat server in 2021 with WebAssembly
It took me around a week to build it with Rust + Lunatic and you can check out the code here. If you would like to try it out you can connect to it with:
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The Stakker actor runtime: Beyond "Go++"
Recently I implemented a command line chat server in Rust using an actor framework. I model each TCP connection as an actor.
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I built a telnet chat server with WebAssembly
Hi HN,
I'm working on an Erlang inspired WebAssembly runtime for the backend[0]. Recently I added TCP support and was looking for apps I could build with it. I ended up building a telnet line chat app. It was a great dogfooding experience and has a nice retro feel to it.
You can access the US server with:
> telnet lunatic.chat
or the EU one with:
> telnet eu.lunatic.chat
Pick the one closer to you, as all the rendering is done on the backend and lower latency will mean better UX.
The server is open source[1] and written in Rust. The Rust code is then compiled to WebAssembly and runs on top of Lunatic. Each connection runs in a separate (lightweight) process, has it's own state and sends just a diff of esc-sequences back to the terminal to bring it up to date with the current render buffer. Everything is deployed to an ARM Linux box.
[0]: https://github.com/lunatic-solutions/lunatic
[1]: https://github.com/lunatic-solutions/chat
- WebAssembly Powered Telnet Chat
- Lunatic.chat – A WebAssembly powered telnet chat
- A telnet chat server powered by WebAssembly
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telnet lunatic.chat – A chat server for the terminal
The server is open source and written in Rust. The Rust code is then compiled to WebAssembly and runs on top of Lunatic. Each connection runs in a separate (lightweight) process, has it's own state and sends just a diff of esc-sequences back to the terminal to bring it up to date with the current render buffer. Everything is deployed to an ARM Linux box.
lf
- Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)
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Yazi: Fast terminal file manager based on async I/O
I've tried using LF in the past, but it didn't stick. Will definitely give this a go, as I'm trying to move to an pure terminal workflow as closely as possible.
https://github.com/gokcehan/lf
- Ytree; a Unix Filemanager
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What are the best open source tools to easily navigate directories from the command line?
Hi. fff, lf, clifm Won't say they're best or not, rather interesting and maybe worth looking at. Looked up for the z in termux's repos and it's called "zoxide" there.
- Switching from unix - Is there a plugin or something similar to Ranger or NNN?
- NvimTree vs NeoTree
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LF filemanager is awesome - so is zsh, which I want to migrate to. But in bash and fish, you can make a function so when quitting LF, you end up in the dir you were in in LF. can't find something similar for zsh
in the Github page for lf under etc, you can find instruction for making such a function for bash and fish.
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What is the process of requesting for a package to be added to the official repos?
I recently discovered an amazing terminal file manager (lf). The package is available for most mainstream distros but not for openSUSE.
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What are your programs missing from the official Fedora repos?
For me, the main program missing is "lf" the ranger inspired terminal file manager. 5000 stars on Github, packaged in the official repos for basically anything under the sun except Fedora and a key part in my day-to-day workflow. https://github.com/gokcehan/lf
- kitty with lf pdf preview
What are some alternatives?
meetings - WebAssembly meetings (VC or in-person), agendas, and notes
ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console
lunatic - Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly
nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
chrono - Date and time library for Rust
ueberzug - ueberzug is a command line util which allows to display images in combination with X11. The user is expected to have knowledge of theoretical computer science. https://github.com/seebye/ueberzug/wiki/Troubleshooting/119e30f331799b30fb9594db29740685cb09425b
embly - Attempt at building an opinionated webassembly runtime for web services
mpv-image-viewer - Configuration, scripts and tips for using mpv as an image viewer
lumen - An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly
lfm
mapscii - 🗺 MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac (brew install telnet) and Linux, connect with PuTTY on Windows
xplr - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer