Kitty – GPU based terminal emulator
2 days ago
- #terminal-emulator
- #productivity
- #GPU-accelerated
- Fast, feature-rich, GPU-based terminal emulator
- Uses GPU and SIMD vector CPU instructions for performance
- Threaded rendering for minimal latency
- Tunable performance tradeoffs
- Supports graphics, images, and animations
- Advanced text rendering with ligatures, emoji, per-glyph font substitution, variable fonts
- Scriptable and extendable with Python (kittens)
- Startup sessions for predefined working environments
- Programmable tabs, splits, and layouts for window management
- Browse command history or last command output in pagers/editors
- Edit/download remote files in existing SSH sessions
- Available on Linux, macOS, and various BSDs
- Pioneered terminal ecosystem extensions