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Nice, I like lightweight and modern terminal emulators. Just installed kitty and compared it in a sloppy way to foot [0] (by running `xxd /dev/urandom` side-by-
by crizzlenizzle 2y ago
Nice, I like lightweight and modern terminal emulators. Just installed kitty and compared it in a sloppy way to foot [0] (by running `xxd /dev/urandom` side-by-side) and foot appears to be faster.
[0] https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot
- Ferret7446 2y agokitty is written in Python, which instantly lowers the ceiling for performance by an order of magnitude. I discarded it as an option in the past: the most important requirement for me is the terminal cannot crash, and I can't trust a Python program to do that.
- FireInsight 2y agoI like Kitty graphics protocol, but never used it. Didn't know Kitty was python, always assumed it was compiled due to the reported speed benefits. Maybe I'd benefit from switch to foot since my setup is mostly wayland nowadays, extra startup speed would be great. Foot seems to also have working terminal clipboard integration with `micro` too.
- lima 2y agoMuch of kitty is written in C, particularly the (very fast) rendering pipeline.
- majoe 2y agoFoot is really great. I often open terminals for executing single commands, so I appreciate its short startup time