Terminal emulators that break from the traditional rendering approach?

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  • wezterm

    A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust

    • and my own humble entry in this space is wezterm: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm which has a decent population of users in Japan and a handful of arabic/RTL users for the unfinished bidi support.

  • mintty

    The Cygwin Terminal – terminal emulator for Cygwin, MSYS, and WSL

    • mintty - a lot of interesting experimental stuff, but windows-only: https://github.com/mintty/mintty/wiki/CtrlSeqs

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  • contour

    Modern C++ Terminal Emulator (by christianparpart)

    • contour - https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour. https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour/issues/100 and other modern unicode focused attempts to update the terminal world

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