Well, since I hate myself, I will keep using
st.1Has features ✅
29Damn. Alacritty has no features?
21Lmao. It is more barebones but yeah "feature: none" is a real jab
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What do the exclamation points mean?
15Yeah, I’d say Kitty and Alacritty work pretty well on Linux. Makes this comparison table seem like bs
36Kitty on macos is absolutely fine too
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That the guy making the table is pulling things out of their arse, basically.
26Here is the review by a closed beta tester.
https://hanna.lol/p/ghost-in-the-terminal/
Here is the video where he talks about the optimization done in ghostty
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They explain it a bit here: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-and-useful-zig-patterns
Also, calling out the warning signs, my bar for a native platform experience is that the app feels and acts like a purpose-built native app. I don't think this bar is unreasonable. For example, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that Alacritty is kind of not native because new windows create new processes. Or that Kitty is kind of not native because tabs use a non-native widget. And so on (there are many more examples for each).
So nothing wrong with Kitty on MacOS e.g., but the "feel" is not native. Personally don't care too much about that, but the author seems to do.
12✅ but I can't give the competitors too many ✅ so let's go with ⚠️
4Unsure, I am using kitty with a very minimal config on MacOS and it works well. Haven’t had any bugs. Seems more like marketing to me (the image)
4https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-is-coming
It was discussed in details in his presentation (the link is in the article).
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kitty should be 4 check marks
13I use alacritty on Linux every day, hell I didn’t even realize it ran under Windows
8Seems the pitch is just that it supports Apple specific bells and whistles like the emoji bar and beyond that has the stuff other terminals have. I use tilda and use that because it has a critical core feature I haven't seen in other terminals: it appears full screen over all other windows with a keypress and disappears the same way. Since I use terminal heavily I don't want to treat it as just another window but as a first class experience which tilda allows. I don't really get why you'd make yet another terminal without some fundamental core functionality difference like that.
8Yakuake also has that
3Good news from September:
Introducing the Ghostty "Quick Terminal" feature: a terminal that drops-down based on a global keybind (also sometimes known as a Doom or Quake-style terminal). This was one of Ghostty's most requested features.
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OP should include the link.
4Lemmy still doesn't let someone post an embedded link and picture. People don't realize that you have to include the linkin the body of the post which is annoying and intuitive, specially because when creating a new post Lemmy will allow you to fill out both form fields for link and picture but only use one.
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Weird table. I use Foot which is pretty fucking fast and does everything I need except panes so I might check this one out.
4Just had a look at Kitty and from what I understand, it's an emulator, and it's fast, has ligatures.
Since I rarely use terminal outside of VS Code, i.e. zsh shell on Mac, I don't quite understand what would I get from it?
Reviews say it's fast, has low latency between typing and the text appearing on the screen - I'm not seeing latency either way. The text is there, can it get any faster? 😅
2I'm late to this, but could a kind soul explain what I'm missing out on by using urxvt? I settled on it years ago and haven't changed anything.
1I think that Hashimoto is using this project to iron out details that are left unaddressed due to convenience for other projects and the very low impact of any single issue Hashimoto has addressed. But much like with Apple projects, Hashimoto intends for the the end product to have greater value than the sum of the parts. Unlike Apple, it will be perfomant cross platform.
I think the only way to evaluate a project like this is to ignore the feature comparison charts and use it to see if it really is better when those details are addressed. I have a feeling that many people will agree and most will shrug their shoulders and not give it a second look if they even gave it a first one.
I'll be trying Ghostty out soon. I hope it's great. But I'm not expecting to be blown away.
1How does kitty or alacritty work with issues on Linux? Which retard made that list
-2As @Treeniks@lemmy.ml pointed out, the author considers something as small as spawning a separate process for each window to mean a "non-native experience" (wait till they see how web browsers work)
7Which retard made that list
There are other ways of disagreeing with people
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