Kitty is a solid, stable, gpu-backed terminal emulator that feels far more polished than Alacritty (although the rendering in Alacritty has improved slightly). Not even a primary macOS user but, nope, sorry, zzz. New versions of Alacritty don't even pass gatekeeper and the maintainers disparage macOS users as idiots who wasted money on Apple hardware (it's in one of the linked issues). I thought I'd give Alacritty a try again and I run into crap like this: alacritty/alacritty#4673. What's the point of fast if the screen doesn't render accurately? Alacritty had numerous text rendering issues (overlapped characters, incorrect font weights, doesn't respect system DPI scaling settings, flashing lines, you name it). When kitty launched it was a stable, feature complete terminal emulator.
Maybe that is why I've yet to run into any problems with it.Įvery time I spin up kitty and Alacritty side-by-side, kitty has prevailed.
#ALACRITTY LINUX WINDOWS#
I don't even use many of kitty's features, like multiple windows or tabs. So for anyone else that's on the fence and happens to like tinkering with keyboard layouts on macOS: kitty is your go-to terminal emulator! Again, on a Linux system this is not as noticeable, but on macOS I have to choose way lighter font variants in alacritty. The font rendering seems to be so much better in kitty.kitty has no such problems on any system that I've tried it on. But alacritty has one big flaw (there's a huge issue open for it, but nothing really going on): it does not work correctly when using an alternative (manually created) keyboard layout on macOS there's something wrong with the underlying library that manages the input, because it seems to react to the correct scancode, but not keycode. On paper, both kitty and alacritty would be good candidates. Ideally, I'd like to use the "same" terminal emulator on both system, with as few differences in configuration as possible. I use macOS at work and NixOS or some other GNU/Linux variant at home.I have a couple of points to add that I haven't seen yet:
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