[dijit]

Alacritty is inspired by kitty; kitty being GPU accelerated (and alacritty also being GPU accelerated).

The major difference between them is that alacritty is written in rust (and has a really nice config that auto-reloads) and kitty is written in C with a smattering of python.

[floatboth]

I think Alacritty was first. At least it became popular first.

[dijit]

Seems you are right, I always assumed alacritty was derived from the ideas in kitty (and hence the name being similar)

first commit in alacritty: Sun Feb 21 08:15:41 2016 -0800

first commit in kitty: Fri Oct 14 12:33:27 2016 +0530

[kristofferc]

The names are similar because they both do a wordplay on TTY (teletypewriter)