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Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by kitsunesoba »

danpalmer wrote: post #10

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…

Maybe my needs are just too basic, but I've not found much reason to look beyond Apple Terminal, GNOME Terminal, etc. Probably the only feature those don't come with that I'd like is quake-style dropdown, but I don't find that worth the quirks that come with e.g. iTerm2.

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

sixothree wrote: post #7
mdaniel wrote: post #2

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

Oof. That’s some toxic conversation.

What's toxic about it? Negative, sure, but it's not toxic to make a substantiated negative comment.

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by danpalmer »

kitsunesoba wrote: post #11
danpalmer wrote: post #10

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…

Maybe my needs are just too basic, but I've not found much reason to look beyond Apple Terminal, GNOME Terminal, etc. Probably the only feature those don't come with that I'd like is quake-style dropdown, but I don't find that worth the quirks that come with e.g. iTerm2.

Absolutely. The only major feature of iTerm2 that I use over the Apple Terminal feature set is the tmux integration, so that my tabs can exist on my server and my terminal is more of a thin-client.

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by pxc »

sixothree wrote: post #7
mdaniel wrote: post #2

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

Oof. That’s some toxic conversation.

I feel bad for people whose projects get shredded on HN, especially from a place of prejudice, like reflexive Electron hate.

But when I actually tried a bunch of Electron-based terminal emulators on Mac a few years ago... they all felt awful. They were slow in ways I did not realize terminal emulators even could be, and they often had extension ecosystems that were similarly slow and also buggy as hell.

Maybe things have improved a lot, or maybe Tabby is an exception. (I'd love to hear from longtime users of Tabby here.)

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by bee_rider »

danpalmer wrote: post #10

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…

I like the ligature support in Kitty.

Alacritty—I used it for a while but I didn’t really notice a performance advantage. I’m not sure what people are doing where terminal throughput really matters, and when Dan Luu did latency tests (admittedly, this was a while ago), Alacritty was middle of the pack.

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by Y_Y »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #13
sixothree wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oof. That’s some toxic conversation.

What's toxic about it? Negative , sure, but it's not toxic to make a substantiated negative comment.

"Toxic" seems to have become a word you say when you don't like something, but you want to represent that it's inherently bad, rather than merely in your estimation.

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by silon42 »

ostenning wrote: post #16

Lets reinvent the wheel but rather than having it round, lets make it square so its slower and less efficient, then we can slap our names on it and cross promote ourselves for higher paying web development jobs

Yeah... xterm with a few tweaks (and some pruning) would still be best for me.
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