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Cmder vs Hyper Terminal: What are the differences?

Developers describe Cmder as "Portable console emulator for Windows". It is a software package created out of pure frustration over the absence of nice console emulators on Windows. It is based on amazing software, and spiced up with the Monokai color scheme and a custom prompt layout. On the other hand, Hyper Terminal is detailed as "A terminal built on web technologies". The goal of the project is to create a beautiful and extensible experience for command-line interface users, built on open web standards. Focus will be primarily around speed and stability.

Cmder and Hyper Terminal can be categorized as "Terminal Emulators" tools.

Hyper Terminal is an open source tool with 34.1K GitHub stars and 2.83K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Hyper Terminal's open source repository on GitHub.

Smash-money, Goodwings, and Cyberlabs are some of the popular companies that use Hyper Terminal, whereas Cmder is used by OPLOG, Codevelopment, and Blocktron. Hyper Terminal has a broader approval, being mentioned in 8 company stacks & 45 developers stacks; compared to Cmder, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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What is Cmder?

It is a software package created out of pure frustration over the absence of nice console emulators on Windows. It is based on amazing software, and spiced up with the Monokai color scheme and a custom prompt layout.

What is Hyper Terminal?

The goal of the project is to create a beautiful and extensible experience for command-line interface users, built on open web standards. Focus will be primarily around speed and stability.

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