[kingtoolbox]

Thank you for your attention again. First I want to let you know that I have just tested iterm2, kitty and Alacritty under MacOS as you wish. If you have interesting, you may have a look at the new test results. One more thing, "emulator" has been removed too, thank you for your point out.

I have been developing windterm for many many years. Based on my data analytics, terminal only spend 2% of the time to show text if you use threads to separate the socket read and text display. So it doesn't matter if you use GPU or not. Of course, use GPU is a very good thing, especially it can display more smoothly and draw emoji characters correctly. But as you can see, windterm still has very high performance without GPU acceleration. GPU also has its disadvantage, most virtual machines on cloud have no GPU emulated, so you can not use Alacritty on them.

The last thing, coloring, This is why I have spent so much time creating windterm in the past many years. The emulator traditionally displays the colors from server, but you know only a few poor text has its color. So for a long time, terminals should depends ZSH or auto-color-ls plugin and etc. to provide additional colors to make text more readable.

But why do we have to endure this? Text editors have already know how to styling a code file or script and done it well for more than 40 years!

So it took me some time to implement a text editor, and then I use its styling engine to coloring the text in terminal. That's why you can see a gorgeous colorful terminal. Prompt, numbers, strings and so on all have its color while maintaining the color from server if they have.

We deserve to have a colorful world, even in terminals, is it not?

[y4mi]

> GPU also has its disadvantage, most virtual machines on cloud have no GPU emulated, so you can not use Alacritty on them.

i'm not sure you understand how the ssh protocol actually works...

i wish you luck though. building stuff is its own reward and don't let random strangers on the internet discourage you

[kingtoolbox]

Believe me, I understand ssh well:) I known you can ssh virtual machines, but you just can't run alacritty on them, even in windows sandbox.

Everyone has their own selection, I respect and also keep mine. So don't worry, everything is just the beginning, I will try my best to create a good terminal, just like what I did in the past.

[cassianoleal]

I'm curious, why do you think anyone would want to run Alacritty (or any other terminal emulator) on the remote host?

The terminal emulator is something I run on my workstation (where the GPU is located), from which I SSH to the remote, where it makes no difference whether it has a GPU or not.

[kingtoolbox]

I mean the local computer for someone who want to run alacritty is also a virtual machine. Many companies have not provided physical machines any more. There are only virtual machines without GPU available for employees to work on the cloud, so the companies can save money and control everything, especially you can not bring anything away.

I believe this is a trend. Maybe one day just like IBM CEO Watson said he thought there was a world market "for maybe five computers".