Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
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HN comment orderAs someone who has dabbled in terminal emulation (I was the maintainer of Console Telnet for Win32 twenty years ago), I have respect for someone who takes the time to optimize a terminal emulator by building a fast parser and being careful with screen updates. That used to be the only way to make a graphical program fast, but these days hardware is so fast you can render an entire scene before the next screen refresh and still have cycles…
Yet another terminal that insists on having its own terminfo. This isn't a big deal if you only need to interact with a few machines via ssh, but when you are working with 100+, including networking gear that has no hope of using a custom terminfo, it really gets to be a gnarly pain. I must be getting old.
My TLDR: happy daily driver terminal emulator, nice project community, possible acme-like mouse features.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 293
- Total comments
- 177
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-02 | A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator | jeromenerf | 4 | 1 |
| 2021-09-14 | Foot – a fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator | yewenjie | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-12-14 | Foot: A fast and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulatorFirst breakout | mikojan | 100 | 40 |
| 2023-05-01 | A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator | rhim | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-05-03 | Foot: CPU-rendered terminal emulator faster than Alacritty and kitty | klaussilveira | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-09-18 | Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator | sqwxl | 4 | 0 |
| 2023-09-23 | Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulatorBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | gjvc | 179 | 136 |