Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
I just want to say that this project is amazing. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, I think Rust is the most exciting thing that&#x27;s happening in computing today. This sort of project that plausibly replaces software traditionally written only in C&#x2F;C++ with something that has performance parity, but is in a language where contributions are relatively accessible and safe, is the most exciting thing even within the bounds of an intriguing ecosystem.<p>As someone who is especially concerned about the performance of my tooling these days due to what seems to be a generally infinite willingness to accept web apps that are slower than desktop apps from decades ago, and which seem to continually demand more resources year over year, I really appreciate that such a distinguishing eye has been given to Alacritty&#x27;s speed and resource usage. Some contemporary alternatives like Electron-based terminals are academically interesting, but are programs I&#x27;d never want to use due to the huge step backwards in these areas.<p>One question: do you have any plans to use Alacritty to try and advance the state of terminal emulators more generally? e.g. Displaying images, richer interfaces that don&#x27;t depend on ASCII bar characters, graphs, properly tabulated results, etc. This is a direction that I wish we were going, but it&#x27;s not clear to me how to get there without many sacrifices.