# hotty (HTML over the TTY)

What if: terminals could speak HTML?\
Status: innovation, market validation in progress

> Yep, this website is a TUI program that renders hotty in xterm.js.

I wanted the neuroplast.io website to be an xterm.js TUI that you can SSH into, but I quickly
hit a limit on how rich the experience can be. So I came up with an OSC protocol similar to
Kitty's graphics, but it streams HTML instead of pixels. Then I built the whole vertical:
* the hotty protocol spec
* hotty-blitz library that implements the host side
* hottyterm, Ghostty with hotty built in via hotty-blitz
* xterm-addon-hotty for hotty on the web (in sandboxed iframes)

Some parts of the protocol are still naive, but it works remarkably well. plx already
speaks hotty, so I build its tools and status bars with it, and this is just the start.
I can't wait to see what other people build with it.

- [hotty.neuroplast.io](https://hotty.neuroplast.io): See it for yourself
- [The spec](https://github.com/neuroplastio/hotty): a draft
- [hottyterm](https://github.com/neuroplastio/hottyterm): a terminal with hotty
  built in, Ghostty with a few mods ([install](https://hotty.neuroplast.io/install))
- [hotty-blitz](https://github.com/neuroplastio/hotty-blitz): the renderer, in
  Rust with a C ABI, and a polyfill for terminals with kitty graphics
- [xterm-addon-hotty](https://github.com/neuroplastio/xterm-addon-hotty): hotty
  for xterm.js, each surface in a sandboxed iframe
- [hotty-go](https://github.com/neuroplastio/hotty-go): the Go SDK
- [hotty-ts](https://github.com/neuroplastio/hotty-ts): the TypeScript SDK,
  for Node and Bun
- [hotty-rs](https://github.com/neuroplastio/hotty-rs): the Rust SDK, with a
  ratatui adapter and the host side hotty-blitz is built on
  ([docs](https://hotty.neuroplast.io/docs/hotty-rs/))
- [hotty-lua](https://github.com/neuroplastio/hotty-lua): the Lua SDK
- [hotty-a2ui](https://github.com/neuroplastio/hotty-a2ui): a UI kit on A2UI,
  with a Go core, a hotty renderer and a storybook (a proof of concept; the
  storybook is one of the apps on hotty.neuroplast.io)

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