Why doesn't WezTerm get any attention? (compared to Kitty & Alacritty)

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  • wezterm

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

    I imagine it depends a lot on your workflow whether there's deal breakers. The main drawbacks to me at this point are 1) can't broadcast keystrokes to all panes (maybe a way to do this with lua magic? Haven't tried yet but at least it doesn't look trivial), and 2) not as intuitive as tmux for session management/connection. I've figured out ways to make it usable for myself but once development settles down I'll go in and learn it properly, right now he's still actively developing some of that workflow (see this issue for some of his ideas) so I'm kind of living with the basics for the time being, I'm not trying to be a full-time student of wezterm. I recommend checking it out though for sure!

  • kitty

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

    I've recently stumbled across the WezTerm terminal emulator and it made me wonder why I haven't really heard anyone talking about it; at least not compared to Kitty and Alacritty.

  • InfluxDB

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  • neovim

    Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

    Look at ZSH, NeoVim, Dmenu/Rofi, LF file manager, or nearly every WM; these (and many more) all come with pretty much no defaults and need heavy configuring to achieve their usability potential but they manage to be used and loved by many.

  • rofi

    Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

    Look at ZSH, NeoVim, Dmenu/Rofi, LF file manager, or nearly every WM; these (and many more) all come with pretty much no defaults and need heavy configuring to achieve their usability potential but they manage to be used and loved by many.

  • lf

    Terminal file manager

    Look at ZSH, NeoVim, Dmenu/Rofi, LF file manager, or nearly every WM; these (and many more) all come with pretty much no defaults and need heavy configuring to achieve their usability potential but they manage to be used and loved by many.

  • Tabby

    A terminal for a more modern age

    However if you do not care about the speed GPU acceleration offers and just want the features you find in iTerm2 you can look at Electron based terminal emulators like Tabby, which has many features, looks very nice, is extensible with plugins, has good mouse support and has cross platform support.

  • Hilbish

    🌓 The Moon-powered shell! A comfy and extensible shell for Lua fans! 🌺 ✨

    Wow, don't tempt me. In another thread someone suggested I switch my shell over to Hilbish as well. It's getting very luariffic out there.

  • 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.

  • xmake

    🔥 A cross-platform build utility based on Lua

    Check https://xmake.io, Lua for building system ;-)

  • svntogit-community

    Discontinued Automatic import of svn 'community' repo (read-only mirror)

    That's not true, it's been in the Arch repo for more than a year

  • Fennel

    Lua Lisp Language

    And then you discover Fennel and consider rewriting everything in lisp.

  • xplr

    A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer

    Thanks for sharing about xplr

  • tym

    Lua-configurable terminal emulator

    I can also recomend a terminal named tym https://github.com/endaaman/tym which is a bit more lightweight, it does however not have many of the features that kitty/wezterm has but it does give you lua config

  • Im doing this awesomewm config in fennel: https://gitlab.com/Erik.Lundstedt/dotconfigfiles/-/tree/master/.config/awesome

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