Hi HN! I built a completely useless tool that just pretends to do work. It's written in Rust and compiles to Linux, OSX, Windows and the web all from the same code base. The web version uses xterm.js which is a JavaScript ANSI terminal. Windows version only has proper colors on Windows 10 because that has finally gotten ANSI support.
I would be extremely surprised if anybody found a productive use for this. Enjoy!
If you have to do work on your computer which is actually productive but doesn't look like you are being productive because not a lot happens on your monitor, then run Genact in another computer monitor, so your co-workers and boss actually think you are actually being productive.
Hopefully its the beginning of a trend with more apps being available in a browser-window without install because of compile-to-WASM.
It makes me wonder if there is any nice version of C stdio you can use that lets your C program access the 'local filesystem' which is actually a folder on the webserver etc so programs that have resource files etc can be cross-compiled.
Whenever I watch movies featuring "hackers" I always wonder who writes the code to do the random terminal noise to make it look like they are doing something.
This is really cool and I could see this making it into a movie (esp considering it is free).
If you boss doesn't want to grant you that cool new high performance rig, maybe you can convince him by showing just how much time you spend waiting with your current slow-as-hell machine. ;-)
Back in the old days, before computers could run multiple programs and switching between them was easy, some games had a built-in "boss mode". You'd hit a function key and the game you were playing would be replaced with something serious looking like a spreadsheet. As Jeff Goldblum once said - gamers ... uh, find a way
I would be extremely surprised if anybody found a productive use for this. Enjoy!