Project Summary
Alacritty is a terminal emulator with a strong focus on simplicity and performance. With such a strong focus on performance, included features are carefully considered and you can always expect Alacritty to be blazingly fast. By making sane choices for defaults, Alacritty requires no additional setup. However, it does allow configuration of many aspects of the terminal. Alacritty is the fastest terminal emulator in existence. Using the GPU for rendering enables optimizations that simply aren't possible without it. Alacritty currently supports macOS, Linux, BSD, and Windows.
In a Nutshell, Alacritty...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a large development team
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took an estimated 6 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in February, 2016
ending with its most recent commit 20 days ago
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