What terminal is the best in '22

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  • autocomplete

    IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal & shell

  • Doesn’t matter, as long as fig.io supports it I’m happy. Currently just using the stock terminal with a shortcut (ctrl+t) to start it.

  • alacritty

    A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

  • For me, it's Alacritty.

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  • kitty

    Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

  • On Linux, I was using kitty, but on Mac, I tried using both kitty and WezTerm, but, for some reason, the font rendering of Alacritty is so good compared to those that whenenver I open them, I feel like there's something wrong with the terminal, so I kept switching back to Alacritty

  • wezterm

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

  • On Linux, I was using kitty, but on Mac, I tried using both kitty and WezTerm, but, for some reason, the font rendering of Alacritty is so good compared to those that whenenver I open them, I feel like there's something wrong with the terminal, so I kept switching back to Alacritty

  • iTerm2

    iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.

  • At first, I was using iTerm2 because I had heard so much about it, but I saw noticeable speed difference compared to Alacritty (personal experience of course)

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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