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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: 0s | source
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FL33TW00D ◴[12 Aug 24 14:13 UTC] No.41224604[source]▶
WezTerm is just so much faster than iTerm2, wish I had switched sooner!

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

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abhinavk ◴[12 Aug 24 15:16 UTC] No.41225413[source]▶
Is it better in typing latency though?
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hughesjj ◴[12 Aug 24 20:58 UTC] No.41229249[source]▶
..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.

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1. fmajid ◴[14 Aug 24 17:27 UTC] No.41248437[source]▶
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.

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2. hughesjj ◴[16 Aug 24 06:35 UTC] No.41263708[source]▶
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)