Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

The previous discussion covers a lot of the experiences with this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29553767

Not to mention 100 MB for a terminal app. What in the world?

edit: just looked into the linked discussion: "The gzipped tar for this is 90MB. It's 265MB unzipped."

This is madness.

If you haven't seen WezTerm, you should.

I think you can make a terminal app even more infinitely customizable by allowing the user to specify a real number that will be displayed in the title bar. Since the reals are uncountably infinite, I think that will be the most infinitely customizable terminal.

I'm not sure what the state of terminals is on other platforms, but on macOS iTerm2 is excellent - having every feature under the sun and very good performance. If performance is a bottleneck then Alacritty is even faster, but I've never felt performance limited in iTerm.

This makes me skeptical about new non-native terminals. Usually the pitch is faster development so more features, but iTerm2 already being feature complete makes this unnecessary, and this isn't exactly a fast moving ecosystem. UX also isn't something that can really be competed on for a terminal app as the UX is typically dictated by the shell, tool, tmux, etc. By being non-native they also lose a significant performance advantage, even if some parts are ported to native code.

So while I think Electron makes sense for a lot of apps, I'm not convinced that it's got "product-market fit" for terminals.