puppeteer is a HTTP server that exposes a REST API with the following three endpoints:

• /cmd For creating a command with a given executable and arguments, as well as indicators to whether stdout and stderr should be captured or if puppeteer should emit them itself. puppeteer’s response will include an ID that uniquely identifies the process it created.
• /wait/<id> For waiting on a process with the given <id>. Returns some information one would expect to find in the equivalent syscall.
• /kill/<id> Kills the process with the given <id>.

puppeteer was made a sort of proof-of-concept to see if there was a way I could integrate it with my emacs set-up to be able to ‘remotely’ execute commands in my terminal emulator, and/or run commands with the context of my active shell sessions and effectively ‘pipe’ them back to emacs.

While I think this is still possible, what I’ve realized in the process of writing puppeteer as it is now is that it isn’t all that useful. As a result, I’m not intending on doing any more work for this project, and it is archived.

At least I got to learn more rust.