When comparing Cathode vs WezTerm, the Slant community recommends WezTerm for most people. In the question“What are the best terminal emulators for Mac?” WezTerm is ranked 13th while Cathode is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose WezTerm is:
tmux-like functionality with native UI even on Windows systems allows managing multiple terminal sessions how you like.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Vintage terminal emulator
Pro Works quite well as a terminal
Pro Supports multiple windows, tabs, splits/panes
tmux-like functionality with native UI even on Windows systems allows managing multiple terminal sessions how you like.
Pro Looks good
Highly customizable appearance and comes with over 240 built-in color schemes.
Pro Open Source and Free
Pro Supports font ligatures and stylistic sets
Ships with JetBrains Mono, a modern programmers font, so that you can enjoy modern typographical features such as contextual ligatures and font variations/stylistic sets in your terminal environment.
Pro GPU Accelerated
Cons
Con Little bit pointless
But who doesn't love pointless... life is about fun!
Con Fun while it lasts but gets old quite quickly.
Con $4.99
Con Lua learning curve for config
The only reason it would be difficult to recommend is that it's for experienced programmers.