When comparing Hyper vs MacTerm, the Slant community recommends Hyper for most people. In the question“What are the best terminal emulators for Mac?” Hyper is ranked 6th while MacTerm is ranked 12th.
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Pros
Pro Beautiful
Pro Great community support, extensions etc
Pro Fully customizable
If you are familiar with web standards, you will be at home in this terminal.
Pro Limited set of features out of the box
Very few features are built into the product itself as the intention is for the plugins to provide most of them. If a plugin doesn't exist just as you like, write it. That extensibility, folks.
Pro Support for macros
MacTerm has a macro tool with which you can add macros that can potentially do anything you want them to.
Cons
Con Limited set of features out of the box
Very few features are built into the product itself as the intention is for the plugins to provide most of them. Yet, taking the other listed con of immature plugin ecosystem into account, this leads to either living without the feature or using an unstable plugin.
Con Can be slow
Example benchmark against iTerm in this Youtube video.
Con Immature plugin ecosystem
Very often you'll find features behaving unexpectedly after installing plugins. Even the popular ones.
Con CJK languages not working
Con Needs an account to work and sends your commands to some server
Apart from the security implications this is slowing things down, making it sometimes unusable!
Con Still in beta stage
MacTerm is still in beta stage which means that it may be missing some features or that it has features which are not yet fully polished.