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I feel like you are really under-selling that entire drama. It started with Casey pointing out some slow terminal behavior[0], to which he receive unreasonable flack, including this choice quote,
>I believe what you’re doing is describing something that might be considered an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation as “extremely simple” somewhat combatively…
Casey then spent a weekend and produced a couple thousand line terminal emulator which seemed feature complete(? probably missing some bells and whistles), but blew away Windows performance.
A year later, Microsoft released a patch, roughly incorporating some of Casey's suggestions, and did not credit him for anything[1].
[0] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362
Meanwhile, all GNOME-based terminals are still capped at 40fps:
https://github.com/GNOME/vte/blob/master/src/vte.cc#L10770
I favor kitty[0] and zutty[1].
Gnome terminal / libvte is and has always been slow, and alacritty might have good throughput, but sadly is high latency.
0. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
1. https://tomscii.sig7.se/zutty/
I favor kitty[0] and zutty[1].
Gnome terminal / libvte is and has always been slow, and alacritty might have good throughput, but sadly is high latency.
0. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
1. https://tomscii.sig7.se/zutty/