asciinema [as-kee-nuh-muh] is a free and open source solution for recording terminal sessions and sharing them on the web.

Asciinema is a jewel for documenting , tutoring and troubleshooting 🥰

This is an awesome tool, and I love to see it get a Rust rewrite.

But the one thing I really wish it could do is embed properly in GitHub's markdown UI so that when I click them in READMEs it doesn't have to send me to the asciicinema site.

I'm sure that has way more to do with GitHub than it does asciicinema, but still, that's why I don't use it for my projects. I hope that can change one day.

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asciinema (aka asciinema CLI or asciinema recorder) is a command-line tool for recording and live streaming terminal sessions.

This is a complete rewrite of asciinema in Rust, upgrading the recording file format, introducing terminal live streaming, and bringing numerous improvements across the board.

So THAT'S what those "not actually a video but plays like a video" text demos are. This is so cool.