If you want the lowest possible memory usage, Alacritty will likely never be for you. Initializing the OpenGL drivers alone ramps up the memory usage to more th

If you want the lowest possible memory usage, Alacritty will likely never be for you. Initializing the OpenGL drivers alone ramps up the memory usage to more than what some other terminal emulators operate at, making it impossible for Alacritty to match that. However, there are other advantages that I personally am really fond of (after all I myself joined the project long after it was started). For many the incredible throughput is probably a big plus. And I have to admit it's just fun to play around with. Using ascii to play videos at almost HD quality. But the reason why I use it myself is much more subtle, it's mainly about the little things. So it's hard to put a finger on 'the one thing' why I enjoy it. It has sane defaults and is much simpler to configure than something like URxvt. It is lighter than VTE and doesn't pull in as many dependencies. It has all the right features that I value which is often much more a preference than something easily objectifyable. It's also easy for me to hack on because even before I joined upstream was very cooperative. In general I think it really depends on what you value so my personal opinion might be of little value to you or anyone else. So really the only way I see to tell if you are a fan of it or not is to just give it a shot.