Can someone make a Driver for ghostty-web?

[MattCruikshank]

A Hacker News discussion about Ghostty being WASM-compiled, as a drop-in replacement for xterm.js got me thinking that I'd love to see Terminal.Gui get a driver that uses Websockets (or SignalR, or whatever) to enable beautiful browser-based TUI.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110842

https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web

[tznind]

If you fancy having a crack you can probably get 90% of the way there just implenting IInput and IOutput.

You will need to decide what T is i.e. the raw stream input packets. It can be just char or something more structured e.g. ConsoleKeyInfo.

https://github.com/gui-cs/Terminal.Gui/blob/v2_develop/Terminal.Gui%2FDrivers%2FIInput.cs

https://github.com/gui-cs/Terminal.Gui/blob/v2_develop/Terminal.Gui%2FDrivers%2FIOutput.cs

[tig]

Not sure why the dotnet driver wouldn't just work.

[MattCruikshank]

I'm imagining starting a process, and getting a URL to access. https://localhost:5050. If I open that port, I download HTML+JS+CSS, and then open a WebSocket connection to the process, which serves up ANSI escape codes to render Terminal.Gui in the full-screen ghostty-web terminal.

Perhaps it's entirely possible to just use the dotnet driver, and pipe its input and output over WebSockets? I don't know.