When comparing hyper vs Fox Term, the Slant community recommends hyper for most people. In the question“What are the best terminal emulators for Windows?” hyper is ranked 16th while Fox Term is ranked 34th. The most important reason people chose hyper is:
Although not Windows-friendly. But nobody uses Windows terminal anyway.
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Pros
Pro Cross-platform due to electron browser-based foundation
Although not Windows-friendly. But nobody uses Windows terminal anyway.
Pro Built on electron, supports split panels and plugins
Pro Multi-Terminal
Many terminals in one, save-able, restart-able, session.
Pro Simple
Minimalist. All you need is to connect to a serial host.
Cons
Con Made with Electron
It uses a considerable amount of resources, compared to other offerings.
Con Not as cross platform as advertised
Most features only work on Mac OS.
Con Incorrect rendering
Terminal window has visual artifacts.
Con No configuration UI; all options must be set via JSON
Con Still maturing as of December 2016
Folks noticed some issues in the 1.0 release cited here.
Con Difficult to find information about it, because of the confusion with hyperterminal
Con Dated
Hasn't been updated for a while, so your Windows will need legacy .NET runtime support. (Windows will automatically detect this and initiate the update, if needed)