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Alacritty

A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator
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What is Alacritty?

It is the fastest terminal emulator in existence. Using the GPU for rendering enables optimizations that simply aren't possible without it. It currently supports macOS, Linux, BSD, and Windows.
Alacritty is a tool in the Terminal Emulators category of a tech stack.
Alacritty is an open source tool with 48.6K GitHub stars and 2.8K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Alacritty's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Alacritty?

Developers
24 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Alacritty.

Alacritty Integrations

Pros of Alacritty
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Alacritty's Features

  • Vi Mode
  • Motion
  • Selection
  • Opening URLs

Alacritty Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Alacritty?
iTerm2
A replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.12 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.
Putty
It is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. It is open source software that is available with source code and is developed and supported by a group of volunteers.
Windows Terminal
A new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community.
Hyper Terminal
The goal of the project is to create a beautiful and extensible experience for command-line interface users, built on open web standards. Focus will be primarily around speed and stability.
Cmder
It is a software package created out of pure frustration over the absence of nice console emulators on Windows. It is based on amazing software, and spiced up with the Monokai color scheme and a custom prompt layout.
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