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Windows Terminal
The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!
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SaaSHub
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wezterm
A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
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st
build of the suckless simple terminal with patches for alpha, font2, copyurl, openclipboard, invert, appsync, xresources, scrollback, w3m, keyboard select, boxdraw (by mrdotx)
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ghostty
👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
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zsh-autocomplete
🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.
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SaaSHub
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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 kitty alternative or higher similarity.
kitty discussion
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We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-16.
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Optimizing My Dev Workflow in 2025
Initially, I used the Mac's built-in Terminal, but encountered issues with font loading. This led me to explore alternative terminal options. I initially chose Kitty, but after the official release of Ghostty, I made the switch. It has been running flawlessly for me.
- [RFC] Allow terminal programs to display text in different sizes
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An Actually Productive Arch Linux Setup
kitty
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Suckless.org: software that sucks less
I quite liked Kitty, and wanted to keep using it. But the slow startup was a deal breaker for me. Even with `--single-instance` it was at least 5x that of st for me, which is noticeable for an app I use very frequently. Besides, I'm not a fan of running a single instance of any app, since if (when) it crashes, all my work is gone.
Then I had a look around their issue tracker, and noticed others complained about this too[1]. And the dismissive and defensive response from the author just rubbed me the wrong way.
[1]: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/330
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Analyzing the codebase of Caffeine: a high performance caching library
kitty is very close, which is impressive when you remember that the vast majority of the work is done by one guy (Kovid Goyal).
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues — 0.239% vs 0.137%
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues — 0.729% vs 0.317%
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/graphs/contributors
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From iTerm To WezTerm
In recent years, new terminal emulators have appeared. I tried using them mainly for testing macmon. A couple of years ago, I tried switching to kitty, which was faster due to GPU acceleration. However, it required too much customization and still looked very non-native for macOS. GPU acceleration was added to iTerm as well, so I stayed with it.
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iTerm2 Critical Security Fix
No it's not. The author smuggles opt-out telemetry and is suspiciously abrasive towards users pointing this out.
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/pull/3544
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Déjà vu: Ghostly CVEs in my terminal title
It's not just Kitty graphics, the Kitty Keyboard Protocol is a DOS waiting to happen, and Goyal with his customary charm is very hostile to the idea of correcting his mistake: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/7749
This isn't the only problem with KKB, it must be deprecated and replaced.
- Ghostty 1.0
- Kitty: The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator
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The primary programming language of kitty is Python.
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