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# Terminals

## Currently

* WezTerm: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/
  - Pros: fast, ligatures, binary release, easy to configure
  - Cons: ???
  - See `wizterm.lua`
* Kitty: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
  - Pros: fast, ligatures, easy to configure
  - Cons: terminfo over SSH, binary release requires new-ish dependencies, installing from source is fiddly
  - See `kitty.conf`
* Xterm
  - Pros: installed everywhere, good for fallback
  - Cons: missing features, less configurable
  - See: xterm.md and `xresources`

## Discarded

* Alacritty: https://alacritty.org/
  - Pros: very fast
  - Cons: no ligatures, no binary release, configuration isn't straightforward