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For those looking for a minimal VT100 terminal emulator without the legacy baggage of Xterm, I highly recommend checking out Suckless Software’s st: https://st.suckless.org/

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Though iirc, if input latency is a concern, I recall st not excelling at that. I think foot is another minimal terminal emulator which promises better latency and performance. I personally use kitty, partly for native Wayland support and partly because GPU offloading seems like a fine idea on a desktop machine. Alacritty is another popular terminal emulator that has GPU acceleration.

St performs differently based on OS. When tested separately, "linux-st" seems to be at least as responsive as Alacritty, while on Mac OS it's the slowest by far:

https://danluu.com/term-latency/https://danluu.com/term-late...

All that said I currently use Alacritty because benchmarks are not everything and I much prefer Alacritty's font rendering (aside from missing ligature support).

For the lazy/confused:

https://danluu.com/term-latency/

:)

Maybe, but who wants a VT100 when you could have a VT400 and not need to reinvent 3/4ths of the universe?

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