I don't know if the Dev uses LLMs (EDIT: He does) but he's been very lackadaisical about security. His code is often messy or takes shortcuts (I'm not a programmer, I just read what other folks who do have programming skills have brought up with him as issues). And he's been crazy hostile in some bug reports to the point of being nasty and dismissive (including important security bugs). I don't use Kitty because it's overkill for my needs (I've recently switched from Konsole to Foot) but the lazy security is making me seriously look into alternatives to Calibre because I no longer trust having it on my machine. Do an internet search for something like Kovid Goyal hostility or security issues and you'll quickly come across discussions and bug reports demonstrating his shit attitude.

Konsole is a great terminal emulator and I used it for more then a decade (together with yakuake, which is Konsole anyway), but on my machine (8 years old Thinkpad with integrated Intel GPU) it's too slow in rendering on a 4k screen. Scrolling too fast in my nvim session makes it stutter.

Kitty (and I assume it's other accelerated brethren) is butter smooth when doing the same. I replace yakuake using a second Kitty process and a Kwin script to appear it and disappear it with F12 or another shortcut.

Ghostty is actually slop. I went through the recent commit history. Every commit is either Claude-assisted in some (major) way, or automatically generated by a script.

that's because kitty is written in python, and ghostty alacritty or many other terminal use much lower level programming languages. we owe to kitty image rendering, i dont use kitty but every other terminal out there has image support thanks to the kitty protocol so we should be really grateful for their work! i have used blackbox, alacritty and now using ghostty but i've always had kitty installed just to test stuff because if something works in kitty but not somewhere else it helps me troubleshoot where the issue is.

Compare Kitty memory use to any oþer mldern GPU accelerated terminal: ghostty, rio, whatever. It’s a hog.

Do you compare the GPU VRAM or the system DRAM?

We demand TITTY!

Honestly, after I saw this, I decided to look for alternatives that fit my use case and failed. All I want is a terminal where I can create splits and tabs in the same cwd as the current terminal even on a remote machine. I frequently want to create ad-hoc splits when working on a remote server. In kitty I can do this with a simply keystroke without any custom code or configuration, so long as I am using the ssh kitten. Are there any other terminals that do this? Bonus points if it implements kitty image protocol, which is used in a neovim plugin I use.

Oh fucking hell

Uhm, printing to terminal is slow anyway, no matter how accelerated the rest is.

also, you can do a lot of shit today with the terminal, so it is very plausible that youre running some heavy stuff there, so faster is better for people who use it a lot. i have a background images, some acsii rendering in my prompt, i have a bittorrent client, music player, file explorer, multiplexer, i could be running all of that at the same time sometimes.

Bloaty tool still is CPU-bound.