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I find this kind of interaction interesting having used both termite and alacritty. Honestly I would have never expected maintainers of what I perceived as a fa

I find this kind of interaction interesting having used both termite and alacritty. Honestly I would have never expected maintainers of what I perceived as a fairly popular terminal to just go, welp use the other guys. This is kind of neat. I had already been using alacritty for a while because it had wayland support, even though it has some weird bugs on my current i3 setup where creating a new terminal just creates an unresponsive window that has to be killed through htop. Other than that it's been great, and there is something satisfying about cat /udev/random and the text that flies by with GPU acceleration.

twic 5y ago
I think the explanation lies here: > VTE is a terrible base for building a modern, fast and safe terminal emulator. It's slow, brittle and difficult to improve. It sounds like the maintainers of termite had a miserable time dealing with VTE, and are glad to see the back of it.
- siver_john 5y ago
  I mean I get that, but they could have just said we're no longer developing this, because we're tired or whatever. I just think it's interesting they made such a strong stand.
  - rektide 5y ago
    dev started with the hubris to try to do better. the laziness to find supposedly good libraries to work atop. and his impatience at a resistant, inflexible library resulted in them warding others off againat similar folly. a three virtues mini saga if I've heard of one, http://threevirtues.com/ http://threevirtues.com/
  - codethief 5y ago
    Given with how the conversation went in the Bugzilla ticket[0] that Daniel Micay linked, I can't say that I blame him. Make sure to scroll all the way down to comment #26 where the devs say: > This bug is closed and this patch rejected […] Adding keyboard selection to vte will be done inside vte, see bug 78291 [1] – a bug which is 19 (in words: nineteen) years old. [0]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679658 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679658 [1]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78291 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78291

twic 5y ago

I think the explanation lies here: > VTE is a terrible base for building a modern, fast and safe terminal emulator. It's slow, brittle and difficult to improve. It sounds like the maintainers of termite had a miserable time dealing with VTE, and are glad to see the back of it.

siver_john 5y ago
I mean I get that, but they could have just said we're no longer developing this, because we're tired or whatever. I just think it's interesting they made such a strong stand.
- rektide 5y ago
  dev started with the hubris to try to do better. the laziness to find supposedly good libraries to work atop. and his impatience at a resistant, inflexible library resulted in them warding others off againat similar folly. a three virtues mini saga if I've heard of one, http://threevirtues.com/ http://threevirtues.com/
- codethief 5y ago
  Given with how the conversation went in the Bugzilla ticket[0] that Daniel Micay linked, I can't say that I blame him. Make sure to scroll all the way down to comment #26 where the devs say: > This bug is closed and this patch rejected […] Adding keyboard selection to vte will be done inside vte, see bug 78291 [1] – a bug which is 19 (in words: nineteen) years old. [0]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679658 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679658 [1]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78291 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78291