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  5. Hyper vs iTerm2

Hyper vs iTerm2

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Overview

iTerm2
iTerm2
Stacks422
Followers288
Votes7
GitHub Stars16.5K
Forks1.3K
Hyper
Hyper
Stacks299
Followers79
Votes0

Hyper vs iTerm2: What are the differences?

Developers describe Hyper as "On-Demand Container, Per-Second Billing". Hyper.sh is a secure container hosting service. What makes it different from AWS (Amazon Web Services) is that you don't start servers, but start docker images directly from Docker Hub or other registries. On the other hand, iTerm2 is detailed as "macOS Terminal Replacement". A replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.12 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.

Hyper belongs to "Containers as a Service" category of the tech stack, while iTerm2 can be primarily classified under "Terminal Emulators".

Some of the features offered by Hyper are:

  • Hyper is able to launch instances in sub-second. Also, Hyper requires the minimal resource footprint: ~12MB mem
  • Hyper is immune from the "shared kernel" problem in container
  • Hyper is hypervisor agnostic

On the other hand, iTerm2 provides the following key features:

  • Split Panes
  • Hotkey Window
  • Search

iTerm2 is an open source tool with 8.82K GitHub stars and 887 GitHub forks. Here's a link to iTerm2's open source repository on GitHub.

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Detailed Comparison

iTerm2
iTerm2
Hyper
Hyper

A replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.12 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.

Hyper.sh is a secure container hosting service. What makes it different from AWS (Amazon Web Services) is that you don't start servers, but start docker images directly from Docker Hub or other registries.

Split Panes; Hotkey Window; Search; Autocomplete; Mouseless Copy; Paste History; Instant Replay; Configurability; 256 Colors (or more!); Readability; Mouse Reporting; Growl Support; Exposé Tab; Tagged Profiles; Multi-Lingual; Triggers; Shell Integration; Automatic Profile Switching; Inline Images; Password Manager
Hyper is able to launch instances in sub-second. Also, Hyper requires the minimal resource footprint: ~12MB mem;Hyper is immune from the "shared kernel" problem in container;Hyper is hypervisor agnostic;Hyper eliminates the need of Guest OS;Virtualization is mature. Features like LiveMigration, SDN, SDS have been battle-tested for years
Statistics
GitHub Stars
16.5K
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Forks
1.3K
GitHub Forks
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Stacks
422
Stacks
299
Followers
288
Followers
79
Votes
7
Votes
0
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Jenkins
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What are some alternatives to iTerm2, Hyper?

Amazon EC2 Container Service

Amazon EC2 Container Service

Amazon EC2 Container Service lets you launch and stop container-enabled applications with simple API calls, allows you to query the state of your cluster from a centralized service, and gives you access to many familiar Amazon EC2 features like security groups, EBS volumes and IAM roles.

Google Kubernetes Engine

Google Kubernetes Engine

Container Engine takes care of provisioning and maintaining the underlying virtual machine cluster, scaling your application, and operational logistics like logging, monitoring, and health management.

Containerum

Containerum

Containerum is built to aid cluster management, teamwork and resource allocation. Containerum runs on top of any Kubernetes cluster and provides a friendly Web UI for cluster management.

Azure Container Service

Azure Container Service

Azure Container Service optimizes the configuration of popular open source tools and technologies specifically for Azure. You get an open solution that offers portability for both your containers and your application configuration. You select the size, the number of hosts, and choice of orchestrator tools, and Container Service handles everything else.

Docker Cloud

Docker Cloud

Docker Cloud is the best way to deploy and manage Dockerized applications. Docker Cloud makes it easy for new Docker users to manage and deploy the full spectrum of applications, from single container apps to distributed microservices stacks, to any cloud or on-premises infrastructure.

Windows Terminal

Windows Terminal

A new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community.

Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) is a managed service that makes it easy for you to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install and operate your own Kubernetes clusters.

Putty

Putty

It is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. It is open source software that is available with source code and is developed and supported by a group of volunteers.

Alacritty

Alacritty

It is the fastest terminal emulator in existence. Using the GPU for rendering enables optimizations that simply aren't possible without it. It currently supports macOS, Linux, BSD, and Windows.

instainer

instainer

InstaDocker is a Docker container hosting service which allows run any Docker container on the cloud instantly.

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