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This Kitty terminal isn't new. Going by the history on GitHub, this terminal predates the one you linked by a couple years.

You've only looked at this superficially.

First commit of Kovid Goyal kitty in October 2016:

Hacker News post about the KiTTY fork of PuTTY in September 2011:

And that's not the earliest for the latter.

Thanks for the correction, good to know.

You are mistaken. KiTTY project started in 2003[1] while the first commit in kitty-term was in 2016.