Alacritty, a terminal emulator written in Rust, now supports Windows

https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/releases/tag/v0.2.3

by eberkund • 8 years ago

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KryDos• 8 years ago

Interestingly it doesn't work faster for Vim+Tmux on MacOS. I always thought it's issue of iTerm2 and Terminal.app but as README states it's probably something related to Vim or Tmux.

Glad Windows is supported now.

EDITED: Just tried to run it on Windows and didn't get it working. I expect I should not have Rust installed, right? Error says something about winpty-agent - "agent executable does not exist"

eberkund• 8 years ago

You need to also download "winpty-agent.exe" from the releases page.

roryrjb• 8 years ago

See this for more context: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/1818

knubie• 8 years ago

I recommend looking into Kitty. It is also GPU accelerated, and comes with its own programmable windowing + tiling system. With some configuring I was able to ditch tmux.

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

digitaltoad• 8 years ago

I actually use Kitty with tmux/vim. I noticed a massive improvement in rendering speed over iTerm. This was after messing with iTerm's own accelerated rendering which wasn't as much of an improvement as I had hoped.

petters• 8 years ago

There is no mouse support for Windows. So if you need that, you need to wait or add it yourself.

mdekkers2• 8 years ago

a terminal emulator written in Rust

Is this the headline feature? That it is written in Rust? Can someone explain why this would be a compelling reason to install this?

detaro• 8 years ago

It's a link to the github repo, submitted to a fairly developer-centric website. It's not a reason to install this, it is why readers here might be interested in looking at the source/the project in detail.

mdekkers2• 8 years ago

It's the title of the submission though, and arguably one of the least interesting aspects of the project. I would be interested in the fact that it claims to be the fastest, and that it runs on the GPU.

outadoc• 8 years ago

I can't wait for it to render PowerShell at a blazing fast speed. /s

InGodsName• 8 years ago

What exactly does it run on GPU. Is it a dropin replacement for Term2 or i lose lots of things?

zamadatix• 8 years ago

I'd wait for it to switch from winpty (3rd party hack to get a PTY) to the new Windows ConPTY API. There is already an active branch towards adding this https://github.com/davidhewitt/alacritty/tree/consoleapi

Also I think it's worth noting Alacritty's main selling point of speed is currently dubious at best on first class ports, I wouldn't expect this to be very speedy on Windows.

Alacritty, a terminal emulator written in Rust, now supports Windows

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