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When comparing Tabby vs hyper, the Slant community recommends hyper for most people. In the question“What are the best terminal emulators for UNIX-like systems?” hyper is ranked 24th while Tabby is ranked 42nd. The most important reason people chose hyper is:
Although not Windows-friendly. But nobody uses Windows terminal anyway.
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Pros
Pro Has a SFTP client
Pro Supports PowerShell, WSL and others
Pro Wildly customizable
Pro Cross-platform due to electron browser-based foundation
Although not Windows-friendly. But nobody uses Windows terminal anyway.
Pro Built on electron, supports split panels and plugins
Cons
Con Terrible compared to How Terminus was
Can't even start Admin tabs.
Con Made with Electron
It uses a considerable amount of resources, compared to other offerings.
Con Not as cross platform as advertised
Most features only work on Mac OS.
Con Incorrect rendering
Terminal window has visual artifacts.
Con No configuration UI; all options must be set via JSON
Con Still maturing as of December 2016
Folks noticed some issues in the 1.0 release cited here.