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Both are horribly slow, seriously, try iTerm2 for a week then try Terminal - you'll then notice how much latency iTerm2 adds to basic key presses. oh-my-zsh is
by AdamGibbins 8y ago
Both are horribly slow, seriously, try iTerm2 for a week then try Terminal - you'll then notice how much latency iTerm2 adds to basic key presses.
oh-my-zsh is also horribly slow out of box, spend some time manually configuring zsh and observe your terminals open in fractional seconds instead of multiple seconds.
- toomanybeersies 8y agoPersonally, I haven't found keypress latency to be a particular issue. I'm familiar enough with the terminal that I generally type by rote, I don't even need to look at the terminal while typing for most common tasks.
- taude 8y agoMy terminals stay open inbetween computer re-boots, so not really a problem? I imagine most dev-types keep terminals open all the time on their local dev machines.
- fredoliveira 8y agoiTerm2 with the new metal renderer (only added to the stable releases recently) is as fast as Terminal. But if you want to see what a truly fast terminal can be, give Kitty a try: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/ https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/ As for OMZ, yep, it includes a lot of functionality out of the box which makes it a little slow. I personally use prezto because it's quicker. Give that a try.
- nsnick 8y agoKitty is OpenGL based. Apple is deprecating OpenGL in Mojave.
- Synaesthesia 8y agoYeah but it’s still gonna work. I mean they haven’t updated it in ages either.
- jrockway 8y agoDeprecated just means all the bugs have been found and you can use it without fear!
- beschicker 8y agoI find this religion quite amusing.
- rounce 8y agoYou should do, it was a joke.
- ReverseCold 8y agoI switched from iTerm+ohmyzsh to Terminal + fish. It's basically exactly what I had before except I can't click on links in my terminal.
- yoz-y 8y agoI've tried fish for a year or two but in the end I went back to zsh. I found that the differences in scripting languages were just not worth it.
- ReverseCold 8y agoMy scripts are still bash scripts, I just run them with `bash somescript.sh`.
- hibbelig 8y agoYou can cmd-double click. (I don't use fish, though. But I don't think there's a way for fish to turn it off.)
- ReverseCold 8y agoNeat! It's exactly what I had before then.
- cseelus 8y agoAfaik Terminal.app still doesn’t support true color, let alone such things as ligatures.
- kitsunesoba 8y agoI don’t know about color (never needed anything fancy that way) but Terminal has supported ligatures for at least the past macOS release or two. I use Fira Code with mine and it works exactly as expected. iTerm2 is nice but for my usage it does too much. If there were a lite version that cut a lot of the more niche features and focused solely on speed and responsiveness I might consider it.
- shriver 8y agoI use iTerm2 all the term and I can honestly say I've never given a second thought to responsiveness. What are you noticing specifically? Are you typing super fast?