[grishka]

There already is an unending number of ways for just one app to waste charge on battery-powered devices. It all already relies on developers not unnecessarily running energy-intensive tasks, either intentionally or accidentally. Adding one more API that has the potential to waste energy if not used appropriately will not change that.

[madeofpalk]

macOS also has a bunch of mechanisms to inform the user about this! IIRC the battery menu has entries for apps draining a lot of power (iterm always shows up there for me!)

[tonyarkles]

My potentially incorrect understanding is that iTerm generally only shows up when the processes you run inside it are consuming a bunch of energy. It only shows up in the battery menu for me when I’m running simulations or other big CPU intensive stuff on the command line.

[madeofpalk]

Yeah - I've always thought about this and was never sure!