![]() ![]() "I personally want the same terminal experience on all platforms I could use": Okay but I don't understand this point.I expect that alacritty will evolve to be super stable on Windows. "Having bugs won't mean they are not solved in the future": Very true.Something like editing text in vim or listing files in a directory doesn't seem to take advantage of GPU acceleration, since those types of workloads have a very tiny amount of data transfer. Although I am not sure what workloads people are using where text rendering speed has an effect? I've seen tech demos that render swirly colors, but that's not a real workload. "Performance is way better than default Windows Console": Yeah, text rendering is faster in alacritty than the old Windows Console, for sure."The main cause of bugs is that Windows differs from Mac/Linux": Yep, can't argue with that.And it seemed like a "well, nice feature to have!" was the motivation for it. Thanks for your answer "Windows wasn't a main goal": True, yesterday I was reading through many discussions from when the windows support was added, since I was trying to figure out why it was useful on Windows. ![]() ![]() Alacritty is a giant winit/ glutin consumer and it helps with its evolution and quality a lot (just see the amount of bugs from alacritty folks in it).Īlacritty were before new Windows terminal though. Anyway users should use whatever they want and having more options is always better.īut there's a reason to use it in my opinion for rust folks in my opinion. I personally want the same terminal experience on all platforms I could use and the projects that is fun to work on, and alacritty has both of these checkboxes are filled for me. The main problem with windows is windows and how it differs from everything else, however alacritty performance was way better then what default windows provided me with last time I checked, and since the project is still in "beta level of readiness" bugs are expected (read README), also having bugs doesn't mean that they wouldn't be solved in a future. The windows support was initially a community driven, that being said the Windows wasn't a main goal iirc, however I don't see any problem with having it here and I find it very useful, will explain later. Anyway let me expose my vision on this question. I don't find a question on what people should use important, since it's up to them, and you shouldn't be driven by what other people do in a daily life. Given the situation, what are the benefits of using Alacritty on Windows? It seems like Windows 10 users would be better off using the new Windows Terminal? Its main features include multiple tabs, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and custom themes, styles and configurations.Īnd here are some related reviews and developer talks: The Windows Terminal is a new, modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). The Terminal will also need to meet our goals and measures to ensure it remains fast and efficient, and doesn't consume vast amounts of memory or power.Īnd here is their Windows Store summary, which says: It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community including support for tabs, rich text, globalization, configurability, theming & styling, and more. Windows Terminal is a new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. What is the point compared to just launching powershell directly? Which is a very stable shell, and can be made beautiful with the Microsoft ColorTool utility, for example mine looks like this: įurthermore, even in the realm of GPU accelerating, Microsoft themselves are making a new Terminal application: Windows Terminal. It's an incredible, GPU-accelerated Terminal for Linux and Mac, where it definitely adds performance.īut on Windows, the amount of bug tickets and pull requests shows that it isn't very stable (ctrl-c terminating the whole shell, bad formatting after minimizing windows, etc). There are no tickets, or discussions anywhere on the internet, that discuss this important question. ![]()
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