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kitty
If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for you! Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based.
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AppSignal
AppSignal knows why the f*#k it crashed. Stop vibe-debugging. Every exception, every backtrace, grouped so you see patterns, not noise.
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sirix
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substrata
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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better hat alternative or higher similarity.
hat discussion
hat reviews and mentions
Posts with mentions or reviews of hat.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-11-03.
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State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions
Unicode support in terminals is kind of a mess for TUI software developers. There is no good way to know how many columns a Unicode character will take, because terminals use different grapheme clustering algorithms.
For a text editor I'm making I ended up with:
> Unicode support is limited to what common modern terminal emulators support. In Hat, "character" is a Unicode codepoint. So no grapheme clustering, no variation selection, no ZWJs, no terminal emulator-specific logic. As long as every buffer byte is displayed and editable, we're ok.
https://github.com/ivanjermakov/hat/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING...
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Users Only Care About 20% of Your Application
From another angle, user doesn't need 80% of your application. This is a key to keep software simple, fast, and convenient to use. The downside (for some) is that because every users's needs are different, software needs to be tweaked and compiled by the end user.
Notable example of this approach is suckless' programs[1] such as dwm, dmenu, and st.
I also took this philosophy and wrote hat - a hackable text editor[2]. Mostly because tweaking neovim was not a pleasant experience and took more steps than it should.
[1]: https://suckless.org/
[2]: https://github.com/ivanjermakov/hat
- Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
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ivanjermakov/hat is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of hat is Zig.
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AppSignal knows why the f*#k it crashed.
Stop vibe-debugging. Every exception, every backtrace, grouped so you see patterns, not noise.
www.appsignal.com