I tried hyper a week or two ago. It's fun and nice... zippy enough in everyday use and fairly pretty. But I had problems pasting commands into it, and it seems incapable of remembering multi-window layouts between sessions.
But, everybody has their own list of must-haves and deal-breakers. I'm sure hyper 1.0.0 does enough for a significant number of people out there. Congrats to the team.
I've been using it since I saw this post. Impressions so far:
1. It's actually not that zippy. Do a "find /" and watch it lock up.
2. Rendering is very glitchy. Resizing the window seems to cause all hell to break loose for me and I have to restart to get things working again.
3. There are hot key problems. Sometimes hot keys (i.e. COMMAND-1 open tab 1, COMMAND-2 open tab 2) don't work, sometimes they do. Clicking in the window makes them work (temporarily) but doing some other stuff can break that again.
4. Sometimes it seems like I'm focused ON that tab, not IN the tab and I have to use my mouse fix that. That's a problem for something that's supposed to be keyboard driven.
Edit:
5. I tried to exit the application and now I'm stuck in an infinite modal dialog "uncaught exception" loop.
It looks like a very promising application, but a replacement for iTerm 2 it is not. This feels like this should be a 0.10 release and not a 1.0 release to me. This app is not robust enough to justify 1.0. :(
It seems reasonably stable and fast, I suspect because it leverages the hterm terminal emulator that's built into ChromeOS. May not work on Windows or OSX though.
But, everybody has their own list of must-haves and deal-breakers. I'm sure hyper 1.0.0 does enough for a significant number of people out there. Congrats to the team.