Terminal emulator big PK, who you Pick?

Author | HelloGitHub-ChungZH

Source | HelloGitHub

When you become tired of the boring black cmd, powershell monotonous blue, you can try to use more customizable terminal emulator. Here are some open source terminal emulator HelloGitHub collected on GitHub, they feature-rich, beautiful interface, can be the perfect alternative to the system comes out of the ordinary terminal. Turnip cabbage all have love, choose one let you see there is no bright spots, the most beautiful of the entire article that "young."

Windows Terminal

GitHub project: https: //github.com/microsoft/terminal
Number of Stars: 58.7k
Roadmap：https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/master/doc/terminal-v1-roadmap.md

If you are a Windows user, developed by Microsoft's Windows Terminal father is definitely your best choice. It supports multiple tabs, Unicode and UTF-8 character also emoji, GPU acceleration, and custom themes, styles and configurations. WT using C ++ development, very fast. (Above this figure is a modified over the background, the default will effect Fluent)

Hyper

GitHub project: https: //github.com/zeit/hyper
Number of Stars: 32.7k
Official website: https: //hyper.is

Hyper using Electron framework, which it can become very beautiful, cool, but it also brings a slow, bulky shortcomings. It's very rich plug-ins and themes, see awesome-hyper, it can be said to be the largest. If you do not care about performance, that Hyper is a good choice. It supports Windows, Linux and MacOS.

Terminus

GitHub project: https: //github.com/Eugeny/terminus
Number of Stars: 13.1k
Official website: https: //eugeny.github.io/terminus/

Terminus is a highly customizable terminal emulator, also uses Electron, and can be set to Fluent Design style background, and it is with Windows 10. It integrates SSH client and connection manager, fully supports Unicode, including full-width characters, with a graphical interface settings page. Support for Windows, Linux and MacOS. Terminus also has some plug-ins and themes.

Alacritty

GitHub project: https: //github.com/alacritty/alacritty
Number of Stars: 21.1k

Alacritty use Rust development, the pursuit of simplicity and performance. Claims to be the fastest of the existing terminal emulator, the use of GPU rendering. Support macOS, Linux, BSD and Windows. At present it is still in Beta stage.

After measurement, Alacritty opening speed can be described as "seconds to open" a lot faster than Windows Terminal.

ConEmu

GitHub project: https: //github.com/Maximus5/ConEmu
Number of Stars: 6.6k
Official website: https: //conemu.github.io/

The terminal uses the C ++ development, excellent performance, very powerful, has a history of more than ten years of. You can run some old DOS programs or games, when the window is resized very smooth, but as you can see, ConEmu really ugly eyesore.

Terminal emulator tools like IDE for their own is the best, if there are other excellent open source terminal emulation tool welcome to leave a message to tell us.

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