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What is PearTerm?

PearTerm is a terminal emulator written from scratch, using Typescript.

I initially started it as a portfolio site to show off some of my work (with a terminal-style twist), but it evolved into a full-on unix-style shell interface. I mainly wanted to build a system that looks and feels like a unix terminal from the ground up.

Nowhere in this project is an existing terminal being called or accessed in any way -- all logic is built in-house. I'm using this mainly as a learning exercise to see how these types of systems are typically built, and it's given me a better appreciation for terminals, shells and unix systems in general.