habitat
Modern applications with built-in automation (by habitat-sh)
alacritty
A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. (by alacritty)
| habitat | alacritty | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 370 | |
| 2,642 | 59,163 | |
| 0.6% | 1.2% | |
| 9.9 | 8.6 | |
| 6 days ago | 18 days ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
habitat
Posts with mentions or reviews of habitat.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-12.
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42 Companies using Rust in production
And many more such as Scaleway, Oxide, Fuchsia, MeiliSearch, Vector, embark, Chef, BBC...
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Is there an infrastructure as code project written in Rust?
https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat written by Chef devs
- Why are there no descent Go or Rust alternatived to Ansible?
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Object-Oriented Entity-Component-System Design
Personal anecdote: Habitat was developed as a sort of application deployment / configuration management tool in Rust, and the architecture there is roughly equivalent to an ECS. I found it a joy to work with and work on. Not sure if it's fundamentally a better software pattern, but it at least meshes with my brain better than how most OO-style software is laid out.
https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat
alacritty
Posts with mentions or reviews of alacritty.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-05-20.
- Why your terminal is boring and what to use instead
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Building Debian packages from source in bootstrapped Debian
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.
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Exploring Rust: A Rubyist's Perspective
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.
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Switching from tmux to Zellij
That's it! Happy CLI mastery with Zellij, Oh My zsh and Alacritty!
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Release Notes for Ghostty 1.1.0
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
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From iTerm To WezTerm
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.
- 3 years old PR to Alacritty for Support for graphics remains open
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Ghostty 1.0
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...
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Preview images, videos, fonts, PDFs ... in Vifm.
The terminal I am currently using is st but I have also tested this "Vifm" enhancement in kitty and alacritty.
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Faking the tmux experience on Windows using AutoHotkey
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing habitat and alacritty you can also consider the following projects:
woodpecker - Drill is an HTTP load testing application written in Rust
Rio - A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator focusing to run in desktops and browsers.
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop and mobile applications with a web frontend.
kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal
tv-renamer - Mirror of https://gitlab.com/mmstick/tv-renamer
foot - Unofficial Mirror: A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator