Per Bothner

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Per Bothner
Hayward, California, US

Per has been involved with Open Source since before the term existed. He was an early employee of Cygnus (later purchased by Red Hat), which was the first company commercializing Free Software. There he worked on gcc, g++, libio (the precursor to GNU/Linux stdio), gdb, Kawa, and more. Later he worked in the Java group at Sun and Oracle. Per wrote the Emacs term mode. Currently, Per spends too much time on Kawa (a Scheme compiler and framework for the Java platform), and DomTerm (a terminal emulator based on web technologies).
Per's home page is per.bothner.com.

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I have succeeded in porting DomTerm to WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). (This of course is Windows 10-only.) This works pretty good, though the only tested/working front-end is the Win32 Firefox browser. Build instructions are on the DomTerm home-page.

I haven't yet tried. I foresee the pty handling would be the biggest problem. Using MinGW or CygWin would probably be possible. Windows 7 is a low priority, but I would like to get Windows 10 support working. That should be easier using WIndows Subsystem for Linux.

I recently created a fork of the Theia IDE (see https://github.com/PerBothner/theia) using DomTerm as the terminal emulator. That fork uses the node pty support, which I believe should work on Windows, though I have not tested it.