When comparing foot vs WezTerm, the Slant community recommends foot for most people. In the question“What are the best Wayland terminal emulators?” foot is ranked 3rd while WezTerm is ranked 8th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Fast startup time
Pro Sixel support
Pro Support for opening a new window in the same directory
Pro Simple configuration
Pro Fast compiling time, few dependencies
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 Does not support ligatures
foot is unable to render special font ligatures.
Con No inner border
Con Bad search support
Ctrl-Shift-R search is a pain in the ass and Ctrl-W kills the terminal too often.
Con Lua learning curve for config
The only reason it would be difficult to recommend is that it's for experienced programmers.