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Do people still use alacrity? It still feels like the most sane choice, although kitty and ghostty's rendering seems more robust. I guess I'll need to give them a go sometime

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Last I personally used Alacritty was 3-4 years back on Linux w/ wayland got some weird rendering bugs, switched to st (https://st.suckless.org/) for a good while.

When I got a Macbook last year, I did a "best terminal macos" search and evaluated multiple terminals; kitty, ghostty, iterm2 and wezterm.

settled on ghostty because it just felt faster for terminal refreshes when I use vite, had tabs, could easily theme it to use ayu-dark. Nothing too extreme, just personal reasons

iterm2 was fine as well, nothing special; wezterm and kitty just felt like linux apps that were on macos as well. YMMV.

I use alacritty. I tried ghostty but not supported on my old home mac, felt slower, and some of the config was not robust. Same with Wezterm, felt slow. Alacritty has worked with no problem everywhere I installed it. Only annoyance was once when the config changed from yaml to toml. Other than that, happy user of alacritty.

I still do. It's faster than Kitty and Ghostty, and I don't make use of the extra features those provide. I don't use glyphs nor rendered images, and I use a tiling WM so tabs aren't that important to me. Alacritty does what I need it to, and does it well.

That's exactly my experience. I dislike ligatures (I want to see the characters I typed) and tiling/tabs are anti-features if you have a tiling WM.

Been driving my use for the last year or so, perfect as a thin wrapper around tmux (which is the same on macOS and Linux).

I'll give iTerm2 another try, has many shiny features like touchID-sudo and such, otherwise don't understand what could possibly be better in ghostty/kitty

I've been using alacritty for ... I don't know, but many years, and haven't once been tempted to switch away.

Definitely, been using it for years and it's one of the upgrades that has genuinely made every day noticeably better

I did for several years but moved on to foot due to minor Wayland quirks I don't even remember.

chiming in as another alacritty (linux) user. kitty never seemed to be much of an improvement for my own workflows, and on my mac, ironically enough, ghostty was having issues with escape sequences when using the terraform CLI, so i stopped using it there.

Happy alacritty user here (Wayland + sway)!

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