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Tiny ruby terminal for X11 (by vidarh)
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  • Rubyterm: A terminal emulator written in Ruby
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jun 2026
  • Show HN: A pure-Ruby X11 terminal
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jun 2026
  • I Love Ruby
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Dec 2023
  • Write Your Own Terminal
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Nov 2023
    No current version, but I'm preparing it. But actually, to see a really ridiculously minimalist start, this was my starting point, which used a tiny X extension to do the X rendering (though it optimistically included a dummy class intended to be the start for the Ruby X backend). It's awfully limited, and awfully broken, but it shows how little it takes to be able to start writing:

    https://github.com/vidarh/rubyterm

    It's totally useless for anything other that testing or expanding on, but it was the starting point for the terminal I now run every day, and I'll be updating that repo as I clean up my current version at some point.

    The current version uses this for a pure Ruby (no Xlib) X11 client implementation:

    https://github.com/vidarh/ruby-x11

    And this pure-Ruby TrueType font renderer (I did the Ruby conversion; the C code it's based on was not mine, and is a beautiful example of compact C - look up libschrift):

    https://github.com/vidarh/skrift

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The primary programming language of rubyterm is Ruby.

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