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rio-backend

A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator powered by WebGPU, focusing to run in desktops and browsers

9 releases

0.0.36 Mar 14, 2024
0.0.35 Feb 26, 2024
0.0.34 Jan 7, 2024
0.0.33 Dec 18, 2023
0.0.28 Nov 29, 2023

#219 in Graphics APIs

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223 downloads per month
Used in rioterm

MIT license

2.5MB
15K SLoC

Rio terminal

🚧 ⚠️ Currently, Rio is in the process of a major rewrite to 0.1.0 to bring more features and fix known issues of 0.0.x versions.

tl;dr: Rio is a terminal built to run everywhere, as a native desktop applications by Rust or even in the browser powered by WebAssembly.

Rio terminal logo

Packaging status

Platforms

Name Details
MacOs as desktop application Installation guide
Linux as desktop application Installation guide
Windows as desktop application Installation guide
Web Browser (WebAssembly) (Sugarloaf is ready but Rio still need to be ported)
Demo rio Demo tmux
Demo linux x11 Demo linux wayland
Demo Windows 10 Demo emacs
Demo native tabs macos Demo error handling

Note: Emojis are rendered with Noto Emoji.

About

Documentation: https://raphamorim.io/rio

If you are using or want to help in any way please consider to donate via Github Sponsors.

Rio would not be possible without few acknowledgements and specially Alacritty, since a lot of Rio functionalities (e.g: ANSI parser, events, grid system) was originally written (and still uses a good amount) of Alacritty code.

Supporting the Project

If you use and like Rio, please consider sponsoring it: your support helps to cover the fees required to maintain the project and to validate the time spent working on it!

Acknowledgments

Dependencies

~2–47MB
~709K SLoC