[xwdv]

GPU rendering matters a lot. For the experienced developer who does all their programming in a terminal, being able to get crisp instant feed back with each key press is critical for a pleasant experience. Other terminals without this just feel too sluggish.

[hnlmorg]

After spending the beginning of my career remoting onto mainframes via low baud serial connections, all terminal emulators now feel responsive to me :)

One of my colleagues at my first job didn’t even have a direct connection to the mainframe when he started. He used to write his code on paper, get a typist to then enter that into the mainframe and he would get the output a day or two later. Which meant he had to put a lot more care into checking for syntax errors before handing the code off to be entered and compiled.