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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 Hyper Terminal? A terminal built on web technologies. 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.

Alacritty and Hyper Terminal can be categorized as "Terminal Emulators" tools.

Some of the features offered by Alacritty are:

Vi Mode
Motion
Selection

On the other hand, Hyper Terminal provides the following key features:

Extensions
Keymaps
Configuration

Hyper Terminal is an open source tool with 34.1K GitHub stars and 2.83K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Hyper Terminal'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 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.

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What are some alternatives to Alacritty and Hyper Terminal?

iTerm2

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Putty

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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.

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.

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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