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.What's so special about the terminal is the immunity the user has to hostile character strings.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.In short, the well-behaved terminal does nothing but display text in your character set.  It does not interpret and it does not execute and it certainly doesn't call GUI APIs to draw buttons and display videos.This is a door best left unopened ...