Alacritty vs. urxvt

Feature	Alacritty	urxvt

Tagline	A fast, cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.	Unicode terminal for X11 with perl extensions, tabs, and daemon mode.
Website	https://alacritty.org	https://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html
Language	rust	c
Date Created	January 6, 2017	November 22, 2003
Platform	macos windows linux bsd	linux bsd
Image / Terminal Graphics Protocol Support	No	No
Sixel Support	No	No
GPU Acceleration	Yes	No
True Color (24-bit)	Yes	No
Font Ligatures	No	No
Tabs	No	Yes
Split Panes	No	No
OSC 52 Clipboard	Yes	No
OSC 8 Hyperlinks	Yes	No
Unicode Support	Yes	Yes
Notifications	No	Yes
Kitty Graphics Protocol	No	No
iTerm2 Inline Images	No	No
3D Mode	No	No
Inline 3D Support	No	No
Ratty Graphics Protocol	No	No
Glyph Protocol	No	No
Kitty Keyboard Protocol	Yes	No
Synchronized Output	Yes	No
Styled Underlines	Yes	No
Shell Integration	No	No
Drop-down Mode	No	No
Built-in Multiplexer	No	No
Config Format	toml	xresources
Source Code Availability	Open Source (apache-2, mit)	Open Source (GPL-3)
Source Code	https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty	https://github.com/exg/rxvt-unicode
Development State	active	active