Alacritty vs Kitty

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  • alacritty

    A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

  • Re. graphics support, the Alacritty developers are working on implementing the sixel protocol. https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/910

  • wezterm

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

  • As others have said, they both have their pros and cons. I went back and forth between them for a while. If you don’t mind installing from the AUR, have you considered WezTerm? I stumbled across it somewhat recently and really love it. A few folks have mentioned ligatures. WezTerm is written in Rust, fairly stable, supports ligatures, and configuration is through Lua. It may not be your cup of tea, but I think it might be worth your time to take a quick look.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • neovim

    Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

  • cool-retro-term

    A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...

  • Third option. And I swear, I'm not joking. https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

  • vtebench

    Generate benchmarks for terminal emulators

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