Alacritty

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “Cool Rust libraries enable this like alacritty for the terminal”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-09

• “replaced Alacritty + Zellij (i just don't have the need to use more”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-05

• “My favorite terminal is alacritty because it's simple reliable and in every OS”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-03-27

• “that shortcut also doesn't work in the Jetbrains terminal, Alacritty, Kitty, and even iTerm2”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-09-24

• “I like the simplicity of foot in wayland and st/alacritty in Xorg”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-09-23

• “it seems to crash when I open telnet in a fullscreen terminal (alacritty on 2560x1440)”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-09-20

• “Alacritty has worked with no problem everywhere I installed it”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-09-17

• “It's faster than Kitty and Ghostty, and I don't make use of the extra features those provide. I don't use glyphs nor rendered images, and I use a tiling WM so tabs aren't that important to me. Alacritty does what I need it to, and does it well.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-09-17

• “impossible to use alacritty on Windows. Paste is broken. Known WONTFIX.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-08-13

• “fixing all the discrepancies I've found in Alacritty where it doesn't send the correct key code by default”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-07-31

• “I was a long term Alacritty and WezTerm user, but Ghostty in 1.0 form already replaced everything I used those for”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-07-20

• “I observe this with many terminals (gnome-terminal, wezterm, kitty, alacritty, xterm)”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-06-24

• “installing alacritty, for example, required an opengl wrapper.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-03-28

• “I can think of a dozen excellent reasons to stop using Alacritty (and not in favor of Kitty) and I did because of some of them.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-01-31

• “Lots of software with great performance, too. Like Alacritty, for example.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-01-24

• “I only settled on Alacritty after giving all the new and supposedly fast terminal emulators a spin”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2024-12-27

• “Have had the best experience with alacritty- runs on all my systems, super fast, config is great”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2024-12-26

• “Alacritty had a few bugs / unimplemented features that broke certain TUIs”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2024-12-26

• “I gave up on alacritty because it was always using the dedicated graphics card of my MacBook and there was no reasonably way to use the integrated graphics card because it was "low performance".”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2024-12-26

• “very disappointed with Alacritty (no support for split term in favor of tmux)”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2024-12-26

• “Alacritty+tmux feels wayyy slower than iTerm for tabs/splitting”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2024-11-28

• “GPU-accelerated Alacritty running Oh My Zsh that's enhanced with productivity tools”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2024-08-22

• “Alacritty: Similar to Xfce terminal, but glitches when the cursor/glyph moves.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2024-08-12