alacritty VS starship

Terminal emulator Alacritty, for instance. The version in the Debian Stable repo is dated— Alacritty of this version uses a .yml config file, but newer versions have switched to .toml.

Rust is one of the most appreciated programming languages, as highlighted in the GitHub Octoverse Survey. It offers memory safety, high performance, and strong tooling, making it a solid choice for both small utilities and large-scale applications. Many of the tools I use daily, like Alacritty and 1Password, benefit from Rust's speed and reliability.

That's it! Happy CLI mastery with Zellij, Oh My zsh and Alacritty!

I don't want to learn tmux to handle a feature that my OS already handles. If alacritty supported tabs (and was slightly less hostile, e.g. [0]) I'd be happy with it

[0] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3129

I also tried Alacritty, but it is very basic and lacks the features I need. Recently, I tested Ghostty, which has gained huge attention – it has nice defaults, but its RAM usage is concerning (around 250MB per empty tab). Currently, it also lacks buffer search, which makes the terminal useless for me.

That's a great approach.

Not sure on the current state of Alacritty, but a few years back the suggested solution for users interested in battery performance was to switch a different terminal emulator: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3473#issuecomm...

The terminal I am currently using is st but I have also tested this "Vifm" enhancement in kitty and alacritty.

I chose Alacritty for this. Why? Because it's written in Rust. Is there any other reason? It also has a pretty simple and has an easy to understand settings page and uses TOML. It also has built in support for vi motions. All wins. It's pretty easy to install as well, just follow the link above. I went with the portable version. Just make sure you note where it is going to look for the configuration files.

For a moment I was concerned about the terminal emulator alacritty[0], which this post, as it turns out, luckily is not about.

0. https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty

WezTerm does not have a graphical interface for configuration, and the setup is done through a Lua file (this is unusual for me, but Vim users are familiar with it). The configuration file can be located at ~/.wezterm.lua or ~/.config/wezterm/wezterm.lua. I prefer the second path because it is where Fish and starship store configs too.

Linux Using Shell Script (Recommended): curl -sS https://starship.rs/install.sh | sh Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt install starship Fedora: sudo dnf install starship Arch Linux: sudo pacman -S starship

This tutorial demonstrates how to integrate a todo reminder into your terminal prompt using the Starship prompt and a Bash script named iZiDo. The setup allows you to manage and display your tasks directly within your terminal.

5. starship Starship written in rust is the minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell! You can download from here. The video by Andrew gives a detailed explanation on configuring the starship.

The speed impact is one reason I've never liked oh-my-zsh and similar for other shells.

It's also why I love starship https://starship.rs/. Lots of plug-ins to customise what I want at the prompt, and all of it native compiled such that it executes in milliseconds.

Starship is an alternative: https://github.com/starship/starship

Thankfully, I found Starship, a super fast, super configurable prompt written in Rust. It works with most shells, on most operating systems.

Starship - A cross shell prompt