chromium / axiom

Axiom Project
https://chromium.github.io/axiom/web_shell/
Apache License 2.0
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Call for new project name mentioned in Readme.md what do you guys think of #274

Open mcanthony opened 9 years ago

mcanthony commented 9 years ago

Axis - seems appropriate, perfect in it's third usage as defined by google dictionary: "3. a straight central part in a structure to which other parts are connected."

If I understand this project it is a full-on terminal emulator with a shell environment which provides basic operating system primitives such as processes, streams, and filesystem emulation. But it is described as a library which abstracts file system, streams and processes, This seems like an ideal trifecta for bootstrapping a modern data intensive web apps.

Thank you guys for building this, there have been many attempts at doing things like this which have lead to many more attempts at building a modern terminal application that is augmented with multimedia ability and HTML mode rendering. This and the Web Shell seem to be the ultimate starting point for such a thing and I intend to make good use of it.

A few questions if I may,

  1. Will the core library be factored out of the Web Shell and treated as a separate project at some point down the line?
  2. Was the core library the original idea but it just seemed natural to realize this API in the form of a demo of a full blown terminal? (just curious)
  3. What are Google's plans for this (if any) and what are some of the ideas/features that the team has slated for the project? (I would like to help)