[vladvasiliu]

> Starting alacritty is kinda slow.

I keep seeing comments like this popping up on HN. Do you guys have some funky esoteric configs?

In my case, where I only changed the color scheme and font, the limiting factor when starting alacritty is how fast I can move my fingers to the i3 shortcut. And I'm not running this on some exotic, fast hardware, just your standard crappy corporate HP laptop from a few years ago.

The only time there was a noticeable lag was when my zsh config was borked.

[HaoZeke]

I think the concept of slow is relative here, for a no configuration start (from a fresh install) alacritty is slower by a factor of 4 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40559084

However the absolute times are still probably not noticable unless you often cold-start terminals.

                     | Alacritty | Foot | Foot Client |
  Absolute time (ms) |    99.0   | 37.2 | 22.8        |

[sodality2]

I can say personally that I switched away from alacritty because I would press my key bind and start typing, and it would consistently miss letters because I hadn’t waited for it to fully load. Foot does not.

If it was an app I opened by pressing Super and typing “terminal”, I probably wouldn’t need the speed increase. But the shortcut is easily accessible from home row, so I press it often and quickly.