Alacritty

Minimal GPU-accelerated terminal emulator

About Alacritty

Alacritty offers a cross-platform terminal emulator focused on speed and simplicity, using OpenGL for rendering. Day to day, it deliberately omits tabs and splits, expecting users to pair it with a terminal multiplexer. It fits teams that value dependable, well-documented tooling they can adopt incrementally and keep using as projects and traffic grow over time.

Alacritty key facts

Category: Developer Tools
Pricing: Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it.
Focus areas: terminal, gpu, minimal
Official site: alacritty.org

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