11 comments

  • grimgrin 4 minutes ago
    I see this as a novel capability with no reason to think “why?”

    It’s a capability, use your imagination.

    Cheers, neat idea

  • hmokiguess 2 hours ago
    I am trying to think of use cases for this but I can’t think of one. It’s sort of cool, but I need help figuring out who’s the audience for this here. Why would someone need or want this?
    • hnlmorg 2 hours ago
      I’d wager it’s just a bit of fun. Which is amongst the best reasons to do anything.
      • hmokiguess 33 minutes ago
        Oh that part I understood haha which is why I liked it. Was thinking beyond that though, curious if there’s more to it.
    • brap 1 hour ago
      I think the main value is buried in the page, and that is it can also render in the terminal, so it’s sort of React for TUI apps? And they built OpenCode with it?

      But then why make console.log your main selling point?

      • moritzwarhier 41 minutes ago
        Because console.log is not much different from stdout in JS/Node, I'd guess.
    • BorisMelnik 2 hours ago
      those are my favorite apps
  • devilsdata 25 minutes ago
    I opened the console to see if it there was a demo, but alas there wasn't.
  • andsoitis 2 hours ago
    This is cool. Can it also be used out of the box to build regular terminal apps?
  • mulhoon 2 hours ago
    Amazing! But why? Definitely a fun idea.
    • baron816 25 minutes ago
      > But why?

      Autism is a hell of a drug

  • rvz 2 hours ago
    Useless but ok.
  • sixtram 1 hour ago
    I'm not impressed until I see Doom ported to console.log rendered thru libghostty-vt.
  • cluckindan 2 hours ago
    Now build a browser in it
  • redanddead 49 minutes ago
    Everyone asking about use cases fuck off already. It’s fun, that’s reason enough
    • apsurd 43 minutes ago
      Building things just for fun in these AI days just hits different now. wish it wasn't so but it is.
      • krapp 40 minutes ago
        I mean - it has a landing page advertising its features. It has an enterprise tier and a "sales team". It has a merch store. It's clearly not meant to be seen as "just for fun."
        • ctippett 2 minutes ago
          The enterprise sales page is so generic I wouldn't be surprised if it was just thrown in by whatever LLM created the marketing site.

          Or maybe I'm just naive about big enterprise's appetite for a library that guarantees 99.99% console uptime.

  • tamimio 2 hours ago
    usecase?
    • AirMax98 2 hours ago
      Job application form would be fun! Lots of companies put little hiring ads for web devs in their console.
      • rvz 1 hour ago
        Why do that when not only an AI agent will find it easily, but AI agents have clearly replaced these web developers?
    • contrahax 1 hour ago
      It looks like the authors also created opencode, and there’s a page about how opencode uses it - so local TUI for agents seems like a primary use case.
  • himekaman 1 hour ago
    noice