Waiter waiter, more core applications using Electron!
Just needed these two reasons to not even try it out.
* Google Analytics on by default
* >100mb download
For a native terminal I'll happily use kitty or ghostty
For a SSH client Zoc (https://www.emtec.com/zoc/) hasn't disappointed me yet, and even then I almost just always ssh through my terminal.
swah · 15m ago
The "native input editing" on Warp did spoil me though. The block feature is also super nice. Especially in the days of copying and pasting from AI tools.
I tested all others (wezterm, ghostty, kitty, rio..) but this comfort trumps the speed or minimalism for me.
Just want a Warp without any AI.
ramon156 · 57m ago
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
h4ch1 · 39m ago
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.
scabel · 28m ago
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.
exq · 30m ago
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.
k_bx · 31m ago
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
kubafu · 26m ago
Happy alacritty user here (Wayland + sway)!
tonnydourado · 16m ago
Of all the things I never wanted, a terminal implemented on JavaScript is easily on the top 10 that I never wanted the most.
For Windows, Windows Terminal is pretty ok.
benrutter · 5m ago
I tried using this a couple years ago - the big issue I had with it is that it's very slow to render text. I'd often accidentally try to print out something that was much longer than I had realised, and then be stuck with Tabby frozen for serveral minutes while it printed everything out.
If you're just using the terminal to run a few commands, and not working in it a lot, it's a pretty tool, and clearly built with a lot of love.
Mk2000 · 1h ago
If modern means slow, laggy and made with js then sure
OccamsMirror · 1h ago
It does!
dsign · 32m ago
I've used it for a few years; can't complain really. Perhaps it's a bit slow, but I don't notice because I already use VSCode and IntelliJ and have enteprise tooling and Teams in my Mac, so if I were to run a piece of fast software it will probably feel jarring and seizure-inducing.
sevg · 8m ago
How does this have so many stars? As much as ghostty and kitty combined, even though I hadn’t heard of it until today.
mzajc · 46m ago
> Tabby (formerly Terminus)
Apparently this has nothing to do with the other terminus [0]?
Just needed these two reasons to not even try it out.
* Google Analytics on by default
* >100mb download
For a native terminal I'll happily use kitty or ghostty
For a SSH client Zoc (https://www.emtec.com/zoc/) hasn't disappointed me yet, and even then I almost just always ssh through my terminal.
I tested all others (wezterm, ghostty, kitty, rio..) but this comfort trumps the speed or minimalism for me.
Just want a Warp without any AI.
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'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
For Windows, Windows Terminal is pretty ok.
If you're just using the terminal to run a few commands, and not working in it a lot, it's a pretty tool, and clearly built with a lot of love.
Apparently this has nothing to do with the other terminus [0]?
[0]: https://gitlab.com/rastersoft/terminus
Tabby 2021, 107 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29553767
Tabby 2023, 92 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35111397
Tabby 2023, 72 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36607323
- Integrated SSH and Telnet client and connection manager
- Integrated serial terminal
- Theming and color schemes
- Fully configurable shortcuts and multi-chord shortcuts
- Split panes
- Remembers your tabs
- PowerShell (and PS Core), WSL, Git-Bash, Cygwin, MSYS2, Cmder and CMD support
- Direct file transfer from/to SSH sessions via Zmodem
- Full Unicode support including double-width characters
- Doesn't choke on fast-flowing outputs
- Proper shell experience on Windows including tab completion (via Clink)
- Integrated encrypted container for SSH secrets and configuration
- SSH, SFTP and Telnet client available as a web app (also self-hosted).