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This question probably should be asked in discussions, since it's not an issue. You can look at their features:
In addition to those, wezterm has experimental Bidi/RTL support, workspaces, animations, events, ... Basically I think wezterm has more features and is more configurable and its developer is more friendly and is more active in adding new features. I personally think the Rust community has a small part in this(although big part in dependencies and contributing), because it's an application used by all, not a library used by Rust developers. Besides it's always good to have more options to choose from. Every developer has different approaches in both designing and implementing a project and its features. If someone wants an easy answer, use wezterm or Alacritty if you want a simple GPU-accelerated terminal. Use wezterm if you need the features only wezterm provides. But if someone is using Wayland, then I'd suggest using foot as a simple, fast and very lightweight terminal. Also this bit from Alacritty's FAQ may answer some questions:
About philosophies, only @wez can answer that. |
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My perception of Alacritty is:
My philosophy/motivation for wezterm is:
The language choice is an implementation detail and the Rust language community itself has no requirements for, or say in, the number of projects that can or should be implemented in Rust. |
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Just found WezTerm, been using Alacritty for several months.I loved it but there are some features that are missing and some that outright don't work. Ever since I started using it on my Windows machine, Nvim mouse inputs are not there. Seen some people reporting in Alacritty's issue section, and all the responses I saw were "well it's windows, there is nothing to do about this". |
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My job is working on terminal everydays, for me: Alacritty:
Wezterm:
Alacritty is overrated, i don't need a fastest terminal, i need stable and useful features terminal. |
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I run wezTerm on windwos , The wezTerm process spend 50 MB memory than Windows Terminal more. |
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What are the differences between these two projects? When should users side with one over the other? Why do we as a Rust community need two different terminals? Do they have different approaches/philosophies?
I think it would be nice not only for me, but also for others to have these questions answered :)
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