About a month ago, I posted in the WindTerm issue tracker about a project I had been working on: Inspired by WindTerm, I built an open-source terminal manager called NyaTerm. To be honest, I was a little nervous when I posted it. WindTerm was not just another tool for me. I used it for years, from university to work, and it genuinely improved my workflow around SSH session management, SFTP, quick commands, and day-to-day terminal operations. So NyaTerm was not created because I disliked WindTerm. Quite the opposite. I built it because I really liked WindTerm and respected what it did. But over the past few years, WindTerm updates became less frequent, issues kept accumulating, and some crashes, compatibility problems, and stability issues remained unresolved for a long time. As someone who uses terminal tools every day, I kept wondering: What would a modern terminal manager look like if it were built again today? That eventually became NyaTerm. The direction is simple: fully free and open source, with support for SSH, local shell, Telnet, serial connections, SFTP, tunnels, OTP, AI assistance, encrypted sync, and a migration-friendly experience for WindTerm users. A little over a month later, NyaTerm has reached 400+ GitHub stars. That number may be small compared with large open-source projects, but it means a lot to me. It means people noticed it, downloaded it, actually used it, reported issues, shared feedback, and even started contributing pull requests. During this month, NyaTerm has gone from v1.0.0 to v1.1.9. Many features were added because of real user feedback, including multi-line paste confirmation, session recording, reconnect support, terminal content restoration, SFTP optimization for many small files, remote file editing, X11 forwarding, tab drag-and-drop split panes, multi-step OTP authentication, compatibility mode for non-standard Telnet devices, Windows portable zip builds, Homebrew Tap, AUR packaging, and sync support through WebDAV / S3 / GitHub Gist / Gitee Snippet. A lot of these were not planned from the beginning. They came from real users running into real problems. The biggest thing I learned from this month is: A tool does not become good because it was perfectly designed from day one. It becomes better because people actually use it, report problems, and help shape it. NyaTerm is still far from perfect, but it has slowly grown from a “remote terminal client” into something closer to a “remote terminal workspace”. GitHub: https://github.com/nyakang/nyaterm Website: https://nyaterm.app   submitted by   /u/Coder_Kang [link]   [comments]