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by biftek 751 days ago
The argument about parsing twice doesn't seem very good to me. Vim and emacs are also parsing keystrokes, should we abandon them too?

The cynic in me thinks it's more likely that because kitty offers tmux features he wants to lock users in to his product.

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Not that KiTTY, this kitty: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

But it's also foss, so, you're still right.

> Offloads rendering to the GPU for lower system load

My God, what have we done

What's wrong with that? Computing history has a lot of machines with various co-processors which are used to offload various things from main CPU. Just as an example: Amiga and C64 had both co-processors for rendering text faster.