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I use alacritty on Linux every day, hell I didn’t even realize it ran under Windows
Damn. Alacritty has no features?
Has features ✅
kitty should be 4 check marks
Seems the pitch is just that it supports Apple specific bells and whistles like the emoji bar and beyond that has the stuff other terminals have. I use tilda and use that because it has a critical core feature I haven’t seen in other terminals: it appears full screen over all other windows with a keypress and disappears the same way. Since I use terminal heavily I don’t want to treat it as just another window but as a first class experience which tilda allows. I don’t really get why you’d make yet another terminal without some fundamental core functionality difference like that.
Yakuake also has that
What do the exclamation points mean?
Yeah, I’d say Kitty and Alacritty work pretty well on Linux. Makes this comparison table seem like bs
Kitty on macos is absolutely fine too
That the guy making the table is pulling things out of their arse, basically.
Here is the review by a closed beta tester.
https://hanna.lol/p/ghost-in-the-terminal/
Here is the video where he talks about the optimization done in ghostty
Unsure, I am using kitty with a very minimal config on MacOS and it works well. Haven’t had any bugs. Seems more like marketing to me (the image)
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-is-coming
It was discussed in details in his presentation (the link is in the article).
Kitty is mentioned once in the article and that’s it. Doesn’t even mention its downside and how ghostty is so much better according to them.
It’s a great project and all, but I’d love if people could stop stomping on others work just to appear better.
Mitchell’s talk has some proof
Only says it’s fast on some specific benchmarks against alacrity. Not talking about why alacrity or kitty would not work on Linux/mac while ghostty does.
Sure, it’s interesting that he managed to optimize so many things. But the claims in the picture are unproven.
Not talking about why alacrity or kitty would not work on Linux/mac while ghostty does.
Does the picture/article claim alacritty or kitty would not work on Linux/mac? Where can I read that?
Just had a look at Kitty and from what I understand, it’s an emulator, and it’s fast, has ligatures.
Since I rarely use terminal outside of VS Code, i.e. zsh shell on Mac, I don’t quite understand what would I get from it?
Reviews say it’s fast, has low latency between typing and the text appearing on the screen - I’m not seeing latency either way. The text is there, can it get any faster? 😅
Weird table. I use Foot which is pretty fucking fast and does everything I need except panes so I might check this one out.
I think that Hashimoto is using this project to iron out details that are left unaddressed due to convenience for other projects and the very low impact of any single issue Hashimoto has addressed. But much like with Apple projects, Hashimoto intends for the the end product to have greater value than the sum of the parts. Unlike Apple, it will be perfomant cross platform.
I think the only way to evaluate a project like this is to ignore the feature comparison charts and use it to see if it really is better when those details are addressed. I have a feeling that many people will agree and most will shrug their shoulders and not give it a second look if they even gave it a first one.
I’ll be trying Ghostty out soon. I hope it’s great. But I’m not expecting to be blown away.
OP should include the link.
Lemmy still doesn’t let someone post an embedded link and picture. People don’t realize that you have to include the linkin the body of the post which is annoying and intuitive, specially because when creating a new post Lemmy will allow you to fill out both form fields for link and picture but only use one.
How does alacritty work with issues on Linux? Which retard made that list
Which retard made that list
There are other ways of disagreeing with people
As @Treeniks@lemmy.ml pointed out, the author considers something as small as spawning a separate process for each window to mean a “non-native experience” (wait till they see how web browsers work)
