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Okay, I Like WezTerm

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488 points alexpls | 2 comments | 12 Aug 24 13:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.541s | source
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leblancfg ◴[12 Aug 24 13:39 UTC] No.41224245[source]▶
Recently switched to WezTerm and I'm very happy. Was using kitty before that – loved the set up and simplicity coming from iTerm2. WezTerm is leaps and bounds better in terms of what comes out-of-the-box. My terminal config is short enough to sit all in one screen on my editor. After that, the terminal just... gets out of the way and I don't need to think about it.

But the straw that broke my back with using kitty was, I'd end up encountering issues or trying to recreate some of iTerm2's features, only to end up time and again on kitty's maintainer's terse and dismissive comments.

e.g. IIRC his answer to "How do I set up tmux with kitty?" was something like "Don't, tmux is dumb" and closing it. Eventually I gave up.

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bramhaag ◴[12 Aug 24 19:09 UTC] No.41228168[source]▶
> e.g. IIRC his answer to "How do I set up tmux with kitty?" was something like "Don't, tmux is dumb" and closing it. Eventually I gave up.

Heh, I switched from Kitty to Wezterm due to the exact same types of comments from the maintainer. It's his project of course, and he's a great programmer, but some humility wouldn't hurt.

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Arnavion ◴[12 Aug 24 23:53 UTC] No.41230685[source]▶
>and he's a great programmer

The people who had to deal with the Calibre setuid binaries fiasco in 2011 would probably disagree :) ( https://lwn.net/Articles/465311/ )

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1. Aeolun ◴[13 Aug 24 01:24 UTC] No.41231259[source]▶
I think that's far enough ago that we can't really draw any conclusions from that to today.

It's like someone deciding my current skill based on how good I was when I left university.

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2. godelski ◴[13 Aug 24 08:11 UTC] No.41233374[source]▶
While I mostly agree, it looks like the fair amount of the article is about his attitude.

   Something that was a bit surprising was the combative tone that Calibre's lead developer Kovid Goyal took in the comments on the bug. Rather than working with Donenfeld to see what the problems were, he dismissed most of the bugs as invalid. Even after Donenfeld tried to further point out the problems, Goyal was rather sarcastic in response:
    You mean that a program designed to let an unprivileged user mount/unmount/eject anything he wants has a security flaw because it allows him to mount/unmount/eject anything he wants? I'm shocked.
This does not appear to have changed if you look at his responses to issues. I linked the tmux stuff in a different comment (same root).

Both skills and personality can chance a lot over a decade and I'm glad you're not quick to jump the gun. We need more people like that. But given brash comments over the past few years, it does not seem like this part has changed. He's been working on kitty for 8 years and has only accepted minor PRs and is dismissive of user issues.