I migrated from urxvt to Alacritty a little less than six months ago, here are some reflections. Despite all the talk about performance, I find urxvt to be mor

I migrated from urxvt to Alacritty a little less than six months ago, here are some reflections. Despite all the talk about performance, I find urxvt to be more responsive. However, it is really not something that bothers me during day-to-day usage and I suspect that it will improve over time as urxvt is about as dead as it gets when it comes to a code base. I also ran into some font scaling issues across monitors [1], but I suspect urxvt gets around this mostly by being completely ignorant of things that have happened over the last 20 years. [1]: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3465 https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3465 Some awesome parts on the side of Alacritty. The community is nice and responsive, documentation good, code modern, and configuring it is straightforward (auto reload upon file edit anyone?). Try getting fallback fonts to work properly with urxvt for example, that is what ultimately drove me away urxvt as the rendering issues I encountered with CJK fonts just drove me up the walls. The worst being somehow shifting the font size depending on whether a character was present in my Japanese font or not. Bonus, I believe the following is sufficient to emulate the look and feel of urxvt in your `.alacritty.yml`: window: padding: x: 2 y: 2 draw_bold_text_with_bright_colors: true