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glkitty
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A new way of drawing boxes in the terminal?
I named sixels because those are widely supported. There are other protocols (the iTerm2 protocol, for example) that can display even higher resolutions. There's also the Kitty protocol for displaying graphics. Take GLKitty for example, that's much more than I'll ever need from a terminal. The most practical use case I've seen is a terminal based file manager with image previews and they don't need that high a resolution.
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Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal for the modern age
I use configured zsh which has majority of features mentioned above. It is integrated with fzf and also has autcompletions(with help description), autosuggestions,hints, file completions and more. You can see my zsh dotfiles below.
https://github.com/varbhat/dotfiles/tree/main/dot_config/zsh
I could even have enabled real time type ahead completions with this plugin but i haven't (because i don't need this feature) : https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete
i use my current configuration on foot terminal (which itself is blazing fast and boasts fastest vtt parser) in linux and kitty terminal (which is very feature rich, even has terminal graphics protocol so that you can even run glxgears(opengl cube demo: https://github.com/michaeljclark/glkitty) on it) on linux and macos.
i am sure that other shells such has fish also has these features.
So, what benefits do i get on switching to warp? currently,i don't see any except few marketing words which aren't enough for me to start using warp.
I might be missing something but i am all ears.
vtebench
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Just How Much Faster Are the Gnome 46 Terminals?
https://github.com/alacritty/vtebench/tree/master
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Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal for the modern age
Hey - that's a good point. The thing about terminal benchmarks is that there are many of them, each focusing on a different aspect and producing different results. There's one by alacritty team[1] that we used in our initial tests[2], there's another ones mentioned in the comments above etc. When using vtbench, Warp performed much better than iterm, for example.
Ideally we'd ace all of them, but we're not there yet. Anecdotally, many of our users mention speed/performance improvements over other terminal apps a lot in our Discord!
[1] https://github.com/alacritty/vtebench
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How Warp Works
The diagram below shows the output of vtebench for scrolling in various terminals. For some reason Hyper generally could not handle running the benchmarks at all and did not terminate after a reasonable amount of time.
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Top 3 GPU-Accelerated Terminal Emulators
It's not easy to measure the performance of terminal apps. But I definitely notice a difference compared to let's say iTerm2, especially when scrolling through large files in Vim. Alacritty claims that it's faster than the competition using vtebench as a benchmarking tool. Kitty claims that the CPU usage is slightly increased compared to xterm (6-8% compared to 5-7%), but that scrolling is smoother.
- Alacritty vs Kitty
What are some alternatives?
alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
vte - Parser for virtual terminal emulators
warp - Secure and simple terminal sharing
Warp - Warp is a modern, Rust-based terminal with AI built in so you and your team can build great software, faster.
workflows - Workflows make it easy to browse, search, execute and share commands (or a series of commands)--without needing to leave your terminal.
glassbench - A micro-benchmark framework to use with cargo bench
termbench - Simple benchmark for terminal output
wezterm - A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
benchmark-scratchpad - A quick scratchpad for benchmarking Rust code
upterm - A terminal emulator for the 21st century.