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Hyper Terminal vs Putty: What are the differences?

Developers describe Hyper Terminal as "A terminal built on web technologies". The goal of the project is to create a beautiful and extensible experience for command-line interface users, built on open web standards. Focus will be primarily around speed and stability. On the other hand, Putty is detailed as "A free SSH and Telnet client". It is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. It is open source software that is available with source code and is developed and supported by a group of volunteers.

Hyper Terminal and Putty can be categorized as "Terminal Emulators" tools.

Hyper Terminal is an open source tool with 30.6K GitHub stars and 2.51K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Hyper Terminal's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Putty has a broader approval, being mentioned in 9 company stacks & 24 developers stacks; compared to Hyper Terminal, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.

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    What is Hyper Terminal?

    The goal of the project is to create a beautiful and extensible experience for command-line interface users, built on open web standards. Focus will be primarily around speed and stability.

    What is Putty?

    It is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. It is open source software that is available with source code and is developed and supported by a group of volunteers.

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    What are some alternatives to Hyper Terminal and Putty?
    Hyper
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    iTerm2
    A replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.12 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.
    PowerShell
    A command-line shell and scripting language built on .NET. Helps system administrators and power-users rapidly automate tasks that manage operating systems (Linux, macOS, and Windows) and processes.
    Windows Terminal
    A new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community.
    Cmder
    It is a software package created out of pure frustration over the absence of nice console emulators on Windows. It is based on amazing software, and spiced up with the Monokai color scheme and a custom prompt layout.
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