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How does this compare to Alacritty on Linux? I've been pretty happy with Alacritty for the past few years but I'm always interested in trying new things.
The major difference between them is that alacritty is written in rust (and has a really nice config that auto-reloads) and kitty is written in C with a smattering of python.
I've recently made a switch to Kitty from iterm2. I couldn't suffer general slowness and visible lag when using vim or nvim anymore. Various solutions and workarounds provided only minimal relief. With kitty the performance improvement was dramatic. Configuration is more involved (config file), but I've managed to set everything up as I'm used to in short time. I'm happy so far, but ymmv
Not to be confused with Kitty[0], a Putty fork. Also a terminal emulator! [0] http://www.9bis.net/kitty/#!index.md
How does this compare to Alacritty on Linux? I've been pretty happy with Alacritty for the past few years but I'm always interested in trying new things.
It's obviously better than iterm2, but Apple's built-in terminal is actually rather fast.
How does this compare to Alacritty on Linux? I've been pretty happy with Alacritty for the past few years but I'm always interested in trying new things.
Alacritty is inspired by kitty; kitty being GPU accelerated (and alacritty also being GPU accelerated). The major difference between them is that alacritty is written in rust (and has a really nice config that auto-reloads) and kitty is written in C with a smattering of python.
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Alacritty is inspired by kitty; kitty being GPU accelerated (and alacritty also being GPU accelerated). The major difference between them is that alacritty is written in rust (and has a really nice config that auto-reloads) and kitty is written in C with a smattering of python.
I think Alacritty was first. At least it became popular first.
first commit in alacritty: Sun Feb 21 08:15:41 2016 -0800
first commit in kitty: Fri Oct 14 12:33:27 2016 +0530
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Kitty is good but the only issue I have is the use of custom terminfo xterm-kitty. This means things break when ssh’ing to older Linux until you copy the terminfo manually. On BSDs it doesn’t work as there is no terminfo support.
ncurses from FreeBSD Ports is built with terminfo, but the ncurses from base uses termcap. Kind of a mess :)
Most application ports have USES=ncurses without arguments, which means they will prefer the ports ncurses — if it's installed at build time. Official binary packages are built without it installed of course. So rebuilding the ncurses apps you care about would make them use terminfo.
Also you can convert terminfo to termcap: https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/infotocap.1m.html