Show HN: A pure-Ruby X11 terminal

Category: devtools

Tags: terminal-emulator, x11, ruby

Score: 7.3/10 (Innovation: 8, Technical: 8, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

A terminal emulator written entirely in pure Ruby, including a custom X11 client and font renderer, with no C extensions or libvte. It offers a reusable terminal engine, damage-driven rendering, and support for running inside itself, making it a technically impressive and novel educational project for understanding terminal internals.

Target audience: backend devs

Repository: https://github.com/vidarh/rubyterm · Ruby · 4 stars

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