Show HN: Termipal – native micro-GUIs for shell scripts and command line apps
Things like this (terminal add-ons like graphical layers and image viewers and so on) are only going to end badly.<p>What's so special about the terminal is the immunity the user has to hostile character strings.<p>When I view a webpage in lynx or read an email in (al)pine, there is no string that could be injected to harm me - I am immune to viruses and javascript and weird CSS and so on.  I can open up an infected document or view a phishing email.<p>In short, the well-behaved terminal <i>does nothing</i> but display text in your character set.  It does not interpret and it does not execute <i>and it certainly doesn't call GUI APIs to draw buttons and display videos</i>.<p>This is a door best left unopened ...