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[-] theherk@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

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

This is my favorite terminal emulator and very configurable with lua.

[-] Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago

On that note also:

  • Alacritty: a minimalist Wayland GPU-accelerated terminal. Claims to be the fast currently available terminal. Also the coolest name ever. This is what I personally use, in combination with tmux.
  • Kitty: a more feature rich alternative, also Wayland, GPU-accelerated, and on par with alacritty for speed. Actually starts up a little faster but uses up more resources and sacrifices in other performance metrics (in my experience).
  • Foot: another minimalist Wayland alternative, but this time CPU driven. Despite this, the performance is still on par with the others. I think this is especially good for laptops and such that run on integrated graphics.
[-] theherk@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

As long as there is a list, probably worth mentioning, the new Zig term on the block, ghostty.

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