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What is Alacritty? A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator. It is the fastest terminal emulator in existence. Using the GPU for rendering enables optimizations that simply aren't possible without it. It currently supports macOS, Linux, BSD, and Windows.

What is ConEmu? A free and open-source tabbed terminal emulator for Windows. It aims to be handy, comprehensive, fast and reliable terminal window where you may host any console application developed either for WinAPI (cmd, powershell, far) or Unix PTY (cygwin, msys, wsl bash).

Alacritty and ConEmu belong to "Terminal Emulators" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Alacritty are:

Vi Mode
Motion
Selection

On the other hand, ConEmu provides the following key features:

smooth window resizing

- tabs and splits (panes)

ConEmu is an open source tool with 6.88K GitHub stars and 471 GitHub forks. Here's a link to ConEmu's open source repository on GitHub.

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What is Alacritty?

It is the fastest terminal emulator in existence. Using the GPU for rendering enables optimizations that simply aren't possible without it. It currently supports macOS, Linux, BSD, and Windows.

What is ConEmu?

It aims to be handy, comprehensive, fast and reliable terminal window where you may host any console application developed either for WinAPI (cmd, powershell, far) or Unix PTY (cygwin, msys, wsl bash).

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What are some alternatives to Alacritty and ConEmu?

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Windows Terminal

A new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community.

Hyper Terminal

The goal of the project is to create a beautiful and extensible experience for command-line interface users, built on open web standards. Focus will be primarily around speed and stability.

Cmder

It is a software package created out of pure frustration over the absence of nice console emulators on Windows. It is based on amazing software, and spiced up with the Monokai color scheme and a custom prompt layout.

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