Paolo RedaelliHow far have we gone since DEC VT100! All those terminal emulator have evolved a lot from the humble Xterm… In recent years we have seen several “modern” terminal emulators. A first wave focused on being shiny and polished or just stylish such as cool-retro-term (which is shamefully not listed on the list on Wikipedia). Recently we are seeing interesting, fresh and new approach to terminal emulation, which is possible in my opinion thanks to the sheer power of recent machines. Let’s see some of them:
Wave: A Modern New Linux Terminal that You’ll Love if You Hate Command Line
Rio Terminal
- Fast and Fast: The Rio has fast performance, leveraging the latest technologies including Rust and advanced rendering architectures.
- 24-bit true color: Regular terminals are limited to just 256 colors, the Rio supports “true color,” which means it can display up to 16 million colors.
- Images in Terminal: The Rio can display images within the terminal using iTerm2 and kitty image protocols.
- Cross-platform:
- Rio is a cross-platform app that runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD.
WaveTerm: An open-source, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows
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alacritty.org
Alacritty is a modern terminal emulator that comes with sensible defaults, but allows for extensive configuration. By integrating with other applications, rather than reimplementing their functionality, it manages to provide a flexible set of features with high performance. The supported platforms currently consist of BSD, Linux, macOS and Windows.