I’ve been using Alacritty exclusively for over a year. It’s fantastic!
But I listened to an interview with Mitchell Hashimoto and he talked about trying to make terminal multiplexers obsolete. It struck a cord with me. I’ve been using Zellij ever since I switched from Iterm2 to Alacritty and it’s great, but also it can be cumbersome.
I find it cumbersome to:
- Search through this history (I don’t do it frequently enough for the keybindings to stick in my head.)
- Splitting and closing panes. (Whereas iTerm2’s keybindings to do this are burned into my brain forever.)
For all iTerm2’s faults, I miss it sometimes. (The biggest reason I ditched it is because you can’t commit its config to version control easily. Its config is huuuuuuge. And I won’t daily drive anything whose config I can’t version.)
Ghostty seems to improve upon nearly all of my problems. I think I can use it without a terminal multiplexer and its config is dead simple. (I’ve barely changed the defaults.)
Is this the new terminal for me? 🤔 Perhaps!