What is 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.
Windows Terminal is a tool in the Terminal Emulators category of a tech stack.
Windows Terminal is an open source tool with 95.9K GitHub stars and 8.3K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Windows Terminal's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Windows Terminal?
Companies
10 companies reportedly use Windows Terminal in their tech stacks, including Armut, General, and Reef.
Developers
140 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Windows Terminal.
Windows Terminal Integrations
GNU Bash, Windows, Oh My ZSH, Zsh (Z shell), and GitDuck are some of the popular tools that integrate with Windows Terminal. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with Windows Terminal.
Pros of Windows Terminal
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Windows Terminal's Features
- Tabs
- Rich text
- Rlobalization
- Configurability
- Theming
- Styling
Windows Terminal Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Windows Terminal?
PowerShell
A command-line shell and scripting language built on .NET. Helps system administrators and power-users rapidly automate tasks that manage operating systems (Linux, macOS, and Windows) and processes.
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).
Putty
It is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. It is open source software that is available with source code and is developed and supported by a group of volunteers.
Hyper
Hyper.sh is a secure container hosting service. What makes it different from AWS (Amazon Web Services) is that you don't start servers, but start docker images directly from Docker Hub or other registries.
Postman
It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.