[hwbehrens]

> the attitude of the developer in the response has certainly convinced me to never become one

If you are a Mac user and not using (or at least considering) iTerm2, you are doing yourself a disservice. It is by far the best terminal emulator available and runs circles around the built-in option.

If you are a not a Mac user, then the entire discussion is moot either way.

[_moof]

> It is by far the best terminal emulator available and runs circles around the built-in option.

How so?

[Xelynega]

iTerm is pretty mid for a mac terminal emulator in my opinion.

Before it I would recommend kitty or alacritty.

[hwbehrens]

Thanks for the recommendations! I checked them both out, but for me iTerm is still a better fit. I think of my Mac terminal as my viewer into the lower level, and not as the lower level, and the batteries-included approach that iTerm takes (e.g. having a UI for manipulating the settings file) is better aligned with that view.

FWIW, they both seem extremely performant and would probably be a great fit if I daily-drove Linux.

[Xelynega]

I'm not quite sure what a UI to configure the terminal has to do with being a "viewer into the lower level" since they both run the system zsh and give the same output.

It sounds like it's more about the extra features being included than the "batteries". What features does a terminal emulator need other than "lets a user enter stdin and displays stdout/err"?