It does look like a silly, experimental terminal. I just thought it was interesting, but it does need more development. I’m interested in a minimal but modern terminal with features such as kitty graphics support. I prefer to choose tools with minimal overlap of features, such as terminals without built-in multiplexers, which is why I have used alacritty with tmux and zellij. Ratty would be a good fit for me when it becomes more stable.

Ghostty does look like a good alacritty alternative which supports a more modern feature set.

I just noticed ratty is a new terminal that could also be a good alternative. It even supports 3D models.

Alacritty, though at some point I may want to move to foot and take advantage of using it as a server/daemon as it would work well with my sway desktop. Alacritty beats foot on rendering time because of its GPU acceleration, though foot is faster where its VT parser shines. Konsole is pretty great, though. The one feature I miss from Konsole is the unlimited scrollback being stored as a cache file on disk. I wish more terminals supported this feature.

If you want tabs, why not try a terminal multiplexer like tmux or zellij?

Here are some useful resources for comparing terminals:

• https://terminaltrove.com/compare/terminals/
• https://github.com/cdleon/awesome-terminals

I’ve also been interested in KMSCON, which is a terminal emulator able to run in the Linux userspace without a graphics server. It looks like it has been getting more support and development this year, and I hope it becomes successful.