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Font LigaturesNo
GPU AccelerationYes
ConfigurableYes, via automatically reloading YAML configuration file
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Con Sacrifices basic features for raw performance
Eschews a negative developmental philosophy towards including said functionality, with the official reason cited in project documentation as "Not within the realm of a terminal emulator" and ostensibly, "best left up to other tools such as terminal multiplexers" [such as screen or tmux]. Which is unfortunate when you factor in speed against terminal with the functionality built in vs their reliance on 3rd party tools:
tmux on alacritty: 'find /usr' time: 3.234s, cpu: 72%
tmux on konsole: find /usr' time: 1.777s, cpu: 96%
See issue here.
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Alacritty
4 months ago
Slow updates: on wayland, 0.12.2 caused a problem/crash which was solved in a day on github, but changes were not released yet. Heavy terminal users can't have an unrealiable system with an unusable terminal.
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Looks goodPro
Simple configurationPro
Blazing fast rendering with GPU-acceleratedCon
No ligatures supportCon
On Arch (Endeavour) it breaks on (Linux) update