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Small update on the pinpit packaging plugin: it now supports building AppImage self-contained binaries for Linux (x64 and arm64).

I used it for my little demo-like side project in June, a project called *forceterm* (see <https://github.com/sebkur/forceterm>), which is a cross-platform tabbed terminal based on *jediterm* (see <https://github.com/JetBrains/jediterm>). JetBrains only develops it as a library for IntelliJ etc. and doesn't offer any stand-alone application based on it, but it seemed like a fun project to combine jediterm as a library with a few bits and pieces to create a terminal app.

With the new pinpit capabilities, it is available as AppImage from the Github releases page, and also as signed and notarized zip application bundle for macOS and MSI installer for Windows.

Btw. I'm pretty impressed by the rendering performance of jediterm, seems pretty fast! Doesn't seem slower than a native terminal at all.

The only thing that feels slow in comparison is the startup time, which is due to the typcial JVM overhead in comparison to native executables I guess.