Alacritty vs kitty

Written in Rust with a philosophy focusing on speed and simplicity, Alacritty is one of the fastest terminal emulators out there.

Alacritty looks very slick on Linux, especially with GNOME or i3.

The configuration file is very well made and easy to use. You can fine tune your preferences to perfection in a matter of minutes.

Alacritty can be configured to adjust line spacing (height), letter spacing (width), and individual character horizontal/vertical positions.

It's simple and fast like xterm or urxvt but with truecolor support which is a big plus if you use a terminal based code editor. Basically Alacritty has all the features you need and nothing you don't (if you're using tmux for multiplexing).

Very elegant keyboard shortcuts for creating and navigating between tiled terminals within each tab with no appreciable lag.

Supports plugins to add features one at a time for those who need them. Examples include Unicode input and side-by-side diffs.

Operate several terminals from one window using the tabs feature, allowing you to make simultaneous connections to different remote hosts.

Allows for viewing the scrollback buffer in an external pager of your choice ('less' by default, with support for 'more' and 'most'), a huge benefit for turning actions taken in a live terminal session into a script for efficiency or dissemination or collaborating on workflows.

No graphical menus to clutter the screen saves system resources and time once you learn that all those options are still available from the command line within the app.