[pdimitar]

Sure, if that's your workflow then I get it. I and many others keep around several persistent windows or tabs however. I don't care if Alacritty takes 1s to start.

Still doesn't invalidate its usefulness, too. Alacritty in particular is often times a better Unicode-rendering citizen compared to other terminals.

[shpx]

I don't care either, just don't call it fast if it takes 4 billion CPU instructions to start drawing a black square to the screen.

[pdimitar]

It is faster than most of the competition in all other areas though.