st vs ZOC Terminal

st is built to serve as a lightweight terminal emulator. It's very light and doesn't require many resources to run, making it able to run well on older and low-end machines.

st consists of a single C file that takes seconds to recompile. This also makes it very easy to understand and customize.

st supports color escape sequences for a full 16 million 24-bit color spectrum, instead of the typical 256 colors.

There is full XFT (X Free Type interface library) and fallback font support through fontconfig in st. If your selected font is missing a certain glyph or symbol, but one of your other installed fonts has it, it will be shown.

Copyfree licensing implies that the user has the freedom to copy, use, modify, and distribute what he/she possesses.

Handles image previews (e.g. in ranger) way better than other terminal emulators.

The patches on the site are great. Scroll back, hide the mouse, etc.

Hackable and lightweight.

it is extremely responsive and fast, even on older computers.

The terminal doesn't have any bloated features nobody uses. It is very minimal and extendable.

It's an actual terminal emulator (in the sense that it emulates a terminal) and not just a local console window app.

ZOC has a modern design.

Zoc provides complete automation of the client using its macro scripting.

Originally developed for OS/2 (as Zap-O-Comm), Zoc is currently available for Windows and Macintosh.

Offers a thumbnail view of all session in thumbnails and type commands to all sessions at the same time.

In addition to telnet, ssh, and rlogin, ZOC supports direct serial connections, modem dialing, and named pipes.

Tabbed sessions mean that multiple items can be contained within a single window and can be easily navigated by the user.

Zoc allows for every UI component except the title bar to be hidden. All features are accessible through the context menu.

Feature to search for text bits in the data stream and highlight them with color/background.