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Re:Windows Terminal Preview 0.9 by cercatrova on Thursday February 13, 2020 @10:11PM (#22323679)
Hyper is slow because it is an Electron app built with web technologies. Try alacritty [0], a terminal written in Rust. It is supposedly the fastest terminal.

[0] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty

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Re:Windows Terminal Preview 0.9 by xvilka on Thursday February 13, 2020 @10:36PM (#22323786)
Alacritty is great but has two annoying problems: lack of the ligatures[1] support and lack of multiwindows[2] feature.

[1] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/50

[2] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/607

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Re:Windows Terminal Preview 0.9 by shaklee3 on Friday February 14, 2020 @12:56AM (#22324281)
I second that, and it just seemed to be lacking features overall, and that was the direction the author wanted the project to go. It was great, but too many things missing for me.
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Re:Windows Terminal Preview 0.9 by maxnoe on Friday February 14, 2020 @02:37AM (#22324709)
Just recently switched from alacrity to kitty for the ligatures, works great and also has a premium on performance
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Re:Windows Terminal Preview 0.9 by shaklee3 on Friday February 14, 2020 @02:23PM (#22329432)
Kitty doesn't seem to be available for Windows though, right?
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