upterm
A terminal emulator for the 21st century. (by railsware)
vtebench
Generate benchmarks for terminal emulators (by alacritty)
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| upterm | vtebench | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 5 | |
| 19,516 | 284 | |
| - | 0.0% | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| almost 5 years ago | over 1 year ago | |
| TypeScript | Rust | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
upterm
Posts with mentions or reviews of upterm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-05.
- Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal for the modern age
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How Warp Works
The reason you don’t see a feature like blocks (with the exception of Upterm) in most other terminals is because the terminal has no concept of what program is running, or really of anything that’s happening within the shell. At a high level, a terminal reads and writes bytes from a pseudoterminal to interact with the shell. This technology is very antiquated--the shell essentially thinks it is interacting with a physical teletype terminal even though they haven’t been used in practice in over 30 years!
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User Friendliness and Terminals
Suprised that no one has mentioned this, but upterm seems to be exactly what you're describing--a terminal emulator that shows a drop-down list of suggestions with explanations. Sadly, only a few commands are supported, and it's no longer being worked on.
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Termy - A terminal with autocomplete
Currently haven't gone as far as making some kind of dedicated shell component though. I find it important that normal shells can work fine with in Extraterm. There was a project from a few years back which also mashed GUI/emulator together with the shell side, Upterm. SSH and containers tend to be the natural enemy of having your own shell though.
vtebench
Posts with mentions or reviews of vtebench.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-08.
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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?
When comparing upterm and vtebench you can also consider the following projects:
Warp - Warp is a modern, Rust-based terminal with AI built in so you and your team can build great software, faster.
vte - Parser for virtual terminal emulators
termbench - Simple benchmark for terminal output
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
book - The Rust and WebAssembly Book
warp - Secure and simple terminal sharing
alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
benchmark-scratchpad - A quick scratchpad for benchmarking Rust code
vim-visual-multi - Multiple cursors plugin for vim/neovim
glkitty - port of the OpenGL gears demo to kitty terminal graphics protocol