[malensek]

Awesome! This is exactly what I've been hoping for. The state of terminal emulators on macOS is particularly bad, at least when it comes to speed. Both the built-in term and iTerm have a lot of features, but really start to lag on big screens with a lot of text. I used to run urvxt under XQuartz for this reason, but there's scaling problems with retina screens these days.

Nice work. Hopefully this can fill a particular void for folks that want no-frills fast terminal emulation.

[SloopJon]

I can't remember the last time I thought that my terminal was too slow, except maybe when I tried that Electron-based program a while back (Hyper, I think it was). My priorities are more like the following:

1. Stability. I crashed Alacritty thirty seconds after opening it; possibly related to issue #12.

2. Emulation correctness. In Terminal.app, the cursor often gets out of sync when I "turn the corner" (i.e., backspace across a line boundary).

3. Font rendering. Text in some terminals just looks ugly.

4. Features. Alacritty doesn't seem to show the number of rows and columns when I resize. Scrollback!

This looks like a really interesting project, but it seems really strange to make performance such a high priority. I tried the find /usr test, and it seemed equally fast in Terminal.app and Alacritty.