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iTerm is great but I'd like to take a moment to mention alacritty[0] in case some people haven't heard of it. By far, the lowest latency terminal emulator on O
by therein 7y ago
iTerm is great but I'd like to take a moment to mention alacritty[0] in case some people haven't heard of it.
By far, the lowest latency terminal emulator on OSX.
[0] https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty
- chrisseaton 7y agoNo beginner has problems with terminal emulation latency!
- ubercow13 7y agoIt's not, by far[0] [0] https://danluu.com/term-latency/ https://danluu.com/term-latency/
- therein 7y agoInteresting. TIL. :)
- hultner 7y agoActually from the looks of it we'd be better of using the stock terminal app than alacritty, thus back to the argument that a beginner probably don't need another terminal emulator. Personally I also use iTerm partly due to habit, been using it for well over 10 years all the way back to the pre-fork days on my PowerMac G5. But it always had features that kept me on (although they've varied over time), for one I've had better true-color support, handles cursors-states better with vim inside of tmux. More font configuration options. I used the Tmux-integration before but don't feel that it adds value for me personally anymore as I'm so used to using tmux directly, GPU-rendering was a nice addition for the 5k/LG UF 4K monitors. Tried going back to Terminal.app (mainly for ultra low vi latency inside of tmux) but always ended up going back.