Alacritty
Dev tools
terminal emulator
SHOW HN2017
1,170points
476comments
#4of 2,242 in 2017
Top 1%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
39 positive, 103 neutral or asking, 6 mixed, 58 critical, out of 206 comments about the project. Thread score -0.07.
Performance: 18 for, 17 againstIdea: 13 for, 20 againstExecution: 3 for, 10 againstDesign: 1 for, 7 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Very fast rendering and snappy feel
From 3 comments
I didn't even realize my (iTerm2) terminal emulator wasn't fast until I tried Alacritty. When doing non-intensive tasks, the difference is less one of vision and more a "feel".…
Arubis on HNI really like this. It combines my love of tmux and vim with my interest in rust, system software, terminals, and my eternal quest for the fastest, simplest, most cross platform…
epberry on HNI love iTerm3, but the speed compared to Terminal.app sometimes makes me jealous. So I guess we all need a faster term emulator :)
steeve on HN
Good Rust showcase and interesting project
From 2 comments
I just want to say that this project is amazing. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, I think Rust is the most exciting thing that's happening in computing today. This sort of…
brandur on HNI really like this. It combines my love of tmux and vim with my interest in rust, system software, terminals, and my eternal quest for the fastest, simplest, most cross platform…
epberry on HN
Objections
No scrollback or tabs
From 2 comments
I really disagree with the authors definition of minimal. Terminal emulators have such a minimal user interface as it is it's a bit boggling that I have to make the case for the…
WhatIsDukkha on HNI just wanted to say that this looks like a fantastic and very cool project! Congratulations on the speed. Personally, the lack of scrollback and tabs is a dealbreaker for me. I…
ekidd on HN
Performance worse than gnome-terminal in some benchmarks
From 2 comments
This is a very interesting concept and another example of what can be done with Rust. However and without the intention of discouraging the author, I did not find any performance…
Anilm3 on HNI really, really like this so far. Interestingly, it's dependence on tmux (which I really like overall) for 'extra' terminal features presents some problems for performance and…
__ddd__ on HN
Requires nightly Rust compiler
From 1 comment
> Make sure you have the right Rust compiler installed. Alacritty is currently pinned to a certain Rust nightly Ok, I'll... um not do that. Hope you publish a build soon though!…
llimllib on HN
Requests
Add scrollback
From 2 comments
I really disagree with the authors definition of minimal. Terminal emulators have such a minimal user interface as it is it's a bit boggling that I have to make the case for the…
WhatIsDukkha on HNI may be reconsidering this position[0]. If scrolling support can be added in a non-intrusive way behind a feature flag (so it could be completely compiled out), it could…
jwilm on HN
Color emoji and fallback fonts
From 2 comments
> Personally, the lack of scrollback and tabs is a dealbreaker for me Completely understandable. This decision was expected to be polarizing. > Do you support color emoji in the…
jwilm on HN> My current Bash prompt contains a unicode character. I guess this is unsupported? Multibyte characters are 100% supported, but only if they are available in the chosen font.…
jwilm on HN
iOS version
From 1 comment
iOS version?
plg on HN
Questions
Will it support images and richer terminal interfaces
From 1 comment
I just want to say that this project is amazing. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, I think Rust is the most exciting thing that's happening in computing today. This sort of…
brandur on HN
Why OpenGL instead of Vulkan
From 1 comment
Why OpenGL instead of Vulkan since that's where everything seems to be going these days.
rocky1138 on HN
Alternatives named
iTerm2
From 2 comments
I didn't even realize my (iTerm2) terminal emulator wasn't fast until I tried Alacritty. When doing non-intensive tasks, the difference is less one of vision and more a "feel".…
Arubis on HNI love iTerm3, but the speed compared to Terminal.app sometimes makes me jealous. So I guess we all need a faster term emulator :)
steeve on HN
gnome-terminal
From 1 comment
This is a very interesting concept and another example of what can be done with Rust. However and without the intention of discouraging the author, I did not find any performance…
Anilm3 on HN
urxvt and termite
From 2 comments
Jwilm: This is great, and I'm really looking forward to following this project; beers on me and thanks for the effort! A few findings from my side if you want some feedback, I…
cyberpunk on HNHey, nice project :) I do have a question: you mentioned that urxvt is difficult to configure (because of .Xresources format?), but then you also say that "GUI-based…
pera on HN
Hyper
From 1 comment
In terms of speed, Alacritty to Hyper is like Sublime to Atom?
yeasayer on HN