Okay, I Like WezTerm

WezTerm is just so much faster than iTerm2, wish I had switched sooner!

Video demonstrating the speedup: https://x.com/fleetwood___/status/1807772624518316495

Is it better in typing latency though?

..you have noticable latency when you type? I'm genuinely sorry, that would infuriate me.

Personally I don't notice any typing latency in wezterm. I have p10k as a zsh theme and not really any 'plugins' beyond git for the terminal and use neovim+ also pretty much just got and CoC for an editor. I don't notice any latency when typing and, while not instant, still sub 200ms startup latency.

Amen. My motivation for switching was that iTerm2 would hang forever after I hit one of my Rectangle/Spectacle shortcuts. Many whole seconds waiting for it to go through one of the transitions in the 1/3 -> 1/2 -> 2/3 screen-size cycle.

No, and unlike the siblings I can actually feel it.

That being said, wezterm is about the only terminal I can use now (besides putty). I'm on a cursed setup, Windows with a Linux VM and whatever terminal I use it has to be able to directly ssh into the VM (NOT via ssh.exe), otherwise there's much worse latency/quirks due to stupid Windows conpty issues.

Currently it does not annoy me too much, but when I finally have time I think I'd try to fix it.

Dan Luu had studied terminal input latency: https://danluu.com/term-latency/

iTerm2 was shockingly bad, for instance, at 44ms vs 6ms for Apple's default Terminal.app. That right there is a deal-killer as far as I am concerned.

Wow, and that's before plugins.

I remember being so frustrated with a Mac because of the animations. It would take like a full half second to maximize etc. I tried disabling them but then it would just do a cross fade or something and still be unresponsive when I tried to type/click on the focused window.

That plus cmd+space doing nbsp and Ruby (required by our IaC framework at the time) treating such differently than other whitespace was the end of my experiment, back to Linux lol

(I have no problems with Mac users and get the love for them, but I definitely prefer Ubuntu)