hs-term-emulator vs vte

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Terminal Emulator written in 100% Haskell (by bitc)

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Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte (by GNOME)

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hs-term-emulator		vte
	Project
1	Mentions	6
63	Stars	170
-	Growth	1.2%
0.0	Activity	9.4
about 2 years ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
Haskell	Language	C++
-	License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

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.

hs-term-emulator

Posts with mentions or reviews of hs-term-emulator. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-30.

[ANN] Terminal Emulator (like xterm) implemented entirely in Haskell
4 projects | /r/haskell | 30 Jul 2021

vte

Posts with mentions or reviews of vte. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-23.

Linux Terminal Emulators Have the Potential of Being Much Faster
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Sep 2023

Meanwhile, all GNOME-based terminals are still capped at 40fps:
https://github.com/GNOME/vte/blob/master/src/vte.cc#L10770
Ask HN: What is your fav “I can't believe in 2022 this still doesn't work right”
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Oct 2022

Low latency is still available. Get a fast gaming keyboard/mouse/monitor/NVMe SSD. Use a latency-tuned kernel, e.g. with full preemption enabled. Disable swap and run a userspace OOM killer to avoid the problems this would otherwise cause. Run Xorg with compositing disabled and TearFree disabled. Disable vsync everywhere. Don't use software that caps the framerate low (e.g. terminals using libvte[0]). Turn off all UI animations.
Most software I used feels more responsive than anything from the Windows 95 era.
[0] https://github.com/GNOME/vte/blob/master/src/vte.cc#L10704
Isn't there a way to fork VTE to have ligatures support?
1 project | /r/gnome | 23 May 2022

In any case, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte
[ANN] Terminal Emulator (like xterm) implemented entirely in Haskell
4 projects | /r/haskell | 30 Jul 2021

Here is link number 1 - Previous text "vte"
xfce4-terminal: No more bold fonts in 4.16?
1 project | /r/xfce | 24 Jan 2021

I'm glad I listed them, I think you are right that it has to do with the library. Seems like they changed the way bold fonts are handled in this commit: https://github.com/GNOME/vte/commit/59e11fd751806876dc1a28c9c6d9a17d75db57d2. They also talk about it here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/323.