Alacritty

A fast, cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.

Date Created:

January 6, 2017

Platforms:

macoswindowslinuxbsd

Language:

rust

Source Code Availability:

Open Source (apache-2, mit)

Development State:

active

Alacritty is a fast cross-platform, terminal emulator. It is known for being one of the first terminals to be written in Rust and to utilise GPU acceleration early on.

It is a minimal terminal and does not include features like tabs or split panes. It ships with sensible defaults, has Vi mode, scrollback search, regex hints, and leans on other better suited tools instead of trying to do everything itself.

Alacritty works best if you need a minimal (but still modern) terminal and you can still get by using tmux or other tools while still preserving performance.