When comparing EvilVTE vs Wterm, the Slant community recommends Wterm for most people. In the question“What are the best terminal emulators for UNIX-like systems?” Wterm is ranked 28th while EvilVTE is ranked 32nd. The most important reason people chose Wterm is:
Wterm is very fast despite using very little memory.
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Pros
Pro Small and lightweight
EvilVTE is a very small and lightweight terminal emulator. It has a pretty small codebase and very few dependencies.
Pro Fast
Wterm is very fast despite using very little memory.
Pro Memory efficient
Each instance requires only about 6.3 MB of RAM, even with 10.000 lines of buffer.
Cons
Con Customization only through C header files
Con Not very powerful
Even for a terminal that aims to be as lightweight as possible it's still not as powerful as it should be. It doesn't have many features found in other options and it's not very customizable.
Con The official repository is inactive
The official repository for Wterm seems to be inactive, with open bug reports as far back as 2006.