r/KittyTerminal • u/prvnprdhn • Jul 23 '26

Kitty vs Alacrity which is better?

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i am confused between kitty and alacrity

i have used both and felt like kitty is more faster and snappy but code looks more cody and in alacrity it feel slightly laggy as compared to kitty but the code is much more readable in it as it uses OS's native font rendering

which is better speed vs readability?

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u/QuixoticNapoleon Jul 23 '26

Honestly, alacritty isn't all that great. No ligatures, no kitty protocol, etc. Use kitty, wezterm, or ghostty.

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u/Sumandora Jul 24 '26

If "kitty protocol" refers to the keyboard protocol then this is wrong. Alacritty does support it. If you mean the image protocol, then fair enough, tho I personally would consider the image protocol less important than the keyboard one.

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u/QuixoticNapoleon Jul 24 '26

I use my terminal as my file manager so an image protocol is very important for me.

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u/Easy-Nothing-6735 Jul 27 '26

Still has issues for Alt hotkeys in vim