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Personally when I tried both (I used a dozen of different terminal emulators to test them out and see which one I like the best) it boiled down to the fact that
by diath 6y ago
Personally when I tried both (I used a dozen of different terminal emulators to test them out and see which one I like the best) it boiled down to the fact that I had some test file for Unicode characters that Kitty (and I believe Sakura?) were the only terminals that could render it properly, Alacritty was second best but it was pretty broken. Other than that feature wise I didn't feel like either of them was missing anything (for my personal use case). Alacritty has a bit faster startup time though which can be noticable.
- JdeBP 6y agoWhich characters? Is this one of the common test files that float around, like the UNSCII one? Or a private one of your own?
- diath 6y agoIt was just a bunch of Unicode characters that I picked at that time to test various terminal emulators, I'm not sure what was it specifically since it's been a while (and there's a chance that Alacritty works fine now), but likely some sort of emojis and Asian scripts.
- JdeBP 6y agoIt is a shame that you cannot remember, because I do keep my eye out for this sort of thing. If it's a font problem, then it's not that interesting to me. And most of the Unicode problems tend to be either (a) people erroneously assuming that "private use" is the same for everyone, or (b) the usual problem with code points that didn't have defined widths and suchlike in earlier versions of Unicode. But very occasionally there's something worth noting.