Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
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Re: Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
#2I'm the author of Alacritty, and I'm here to answer any questions!
Re: Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
#3I'm the author of Alacritty, and I'm here to answer any questions!
Cool project, but I have literally never thought a terminal was excessively low-performing enough to prevent work from getting done. What applications benefit from a terminal that's even an order of magnitude faster than the alternative?
Re: Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
#4I love iTerm3, but the speed compared to Terminal.app sometimes makes me jealous.
So I guess we all need a faster term emulator :)
Re: Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
#5I'm the author of Alacritty, and I'm here to answer any questions!
Cool project, but I have literally never thought a terminal was excessively low-performing enough to prevent work from getting done. What applications benefit from a terminal that's even an order of magnitude faster than the alternative?
Noisy build processes?
Re: Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
#6I'm the author of Alacritty, and I'm here to answer any questions!
Cool project, but I have literally never thought a terminal was excessively low-performing enough to prevent work from getting done. What applications benefit from a terminal that's even an order of magnitude faster than the alternative?
Terminal performance is fine at smaller sizes and with less going on.
In a multi-pane tmux window with vim, performance issues start to become noticeable. Many people I've talked to have experienced a situation where a bunch of output is being written to the screen, they panic to hit C-c, and then all you can do is wait for it to finish. This just isn't an issue with Alacritty.
Alacritty is about having tools that don't get in your way and don't distract you from what you're trying to accomplish.
Re: Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
#7I'm the author of Alacritty, and I'm here to answer any questions!
Is split-screen like terminator/iTerm part of the plans?
(Yes, I know tmux and screen exist, I just prefer GUI splitscreen)
Re: Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
#8I'm the author of Alacritty, and I'm here to answer any questions!
Cool project, but I have literally never thought a terminal was excessively low-performing enough to prevent work from getting done. What applications benefit from a terminal that's even an order of magnitude faster than the alternative?
> I have literally never thought a terminal was excessively low-performing enough to prevent work from getting done.
Which one do you use ?
Re: Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
#9I'm the author of Alacritty, and I'm here to answer any questions!
Cool project, but I have literally never thought a terminal was excessively low-performing enough to prevent work from getting done. What applications benefit from a terminal that's even an order of magnitude faster than the alternative?
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Re: Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
#10I'm the author of Alacritty, and I'm here to answer any questions!
Cool project, but I have literally never thought a terminal was excessively low-performing enough to prevent work from getting done. What applications benefit from a terminal that's even an order of magnitude faster than the alternative?
On Windows "std::cout" can take upwards of 3ms. I noticed this when writing high speed camera software that was supposed to hit my callback every 2ms. Instead it was limited by my print statement!
Does this emulator solve my problem?