I'm curious how alacritty compares to it. The alacritty devs basically consider another terminal app rendering faster than them to be a bug on their part ;-) But it does sound like it would be a good challenge.
> I'm curious how alacritty compares to it. The alacritty devs basically consider another terminal app rendering faster than them to be a bug on their part
Note: Alacritty prides itself on fast rendering speed, but not necessarily on low latency[0]. I'm a happy Alacritty/Linux user, but I'm not sure it would win on this benchmark.
Alacritty has kind of a lot of input latency, it's noticeably worse than wsltty and the default WSL terminal -- at least back when I checked it a year ago.
I think some work has been done to improve it, but at this point IMO if you're on Windows then wsltty is as good as it gets for a general purpose terminal. If you're on Linux, xterm is top notch.
I don't know, I've got two panes here opened next to each other (tiled/xmonad) with xterm and alacritty, and I've been typing in those for the last 5min, and I really can't tell the difference (my monitor has 5ms latency).
I use kitty and alacritty interchangeably on Linux/X and I don't literally can't tell the difference between the two. Sometimes I forget which one I'm using. Using pretty much anything else it's very obvious.
Note: Alacritty prides itself on fast rendering speed, but not necessarily on low latency[0]. I'm a happy Alacritty/Linux user, but I'm not sure it would win on this benchmark.
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18006751