[ixtli]

Agree. iTerm2 has been doing rendering with opengl for years. If you're on OS X its unclear why something like Hyper is necessary.

[ilikehurdles]

I stopped using iTerm2 in favor of the default Terminal because iTerm2 has worse performance and latency [1], and I wasn't getting anything out of its additional features. I noticed an improvement going back to Terminal.app. YMMV of course; but if we're asking why Hyper is necessary, I'd like to ask the same question of iTerm2.

[1]: https://danluu.com/term-latency/

[bauerd]

iTerm2 has lots of features that Terminal.app lacks: https://www.iterm2.com/features.html