I open new tabs or panes in my single terminal window, personally FWIW.

Great point. I was using i3/sway which is not conducive to terminal tabs or panes, but on my mac, kitty does sound pretty good, and 200ms is way better than what I'm getting now

you can run it with `--single-instance` (or `-1`) and you only pay (most of) that startup cost once.

Frankly, my shell startup time is that long. (fish, some configuration files, no effort at optimization)

That's a pretty hyper-optimized life, when 0.2 sec to get a command line is a problem.

> That's a pretty hyper-optimized life, when 0.2 sec to get a command line is a problem.

This made me chuckle :D. I supposed you're right. On my work rig, 200ms is a dream, so I suppose kitty would be great.

For personal programming, I use i3 and sway. The latency difference between my work mac and personal Linux is insane. Every little bit feels like molasses on Linux since it's the lowest latency system I've ever used.