Alacritty

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Alacritty

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
A Wayland-native GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust

Launched in 2017, Alacritty is a terminal emulator that uses Rust (a memory-safe language) and OpenGL for rendering everything, aiming for perfomance, security, configurability, and simplicity.

A list of Alacritty's features can be found here. Alacritty is currently in beta, but is already used as a daily driver by many people. It is also the default terminal emulator for Sway, a Wayland-native WM.

Another Wayland-native, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator is kitty.

IRC general channel

irc://irc.libera.chat/alacritty

Download

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases

Categories

• Interface:command-line
• Interface:x-window-system
• Interface:wayland-window-system
• Programming-language:rust
• Runs-on:GNU/Linux
• Runs-on:Windows
• Runs-on:BSD
• Runs-on:OS X
• Use:interface

Licensing

License

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Notes

License

Apache-2.0

Verified by

Panos Alevropoulos

Verified on

22 October 2021

Notes

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/blob/master/LICENSE-APACHE

Leaders and contributors

Resources and communication

Software prerequisites

Kind	Description
Required to use	OpenGL

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