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Just took a look at all the tools you listed (besides ripgrep, as I've already been using it). Exa and bat look great! Just installed them and am looking forward to using them. I'm having a hard time convincing myself to leave iTerm for Alacritty, just for a speed boost. I've never had speed issues with iTerm, but I'm wondering if there is anything else you like about alacritty that might change my mind.

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> I'm having a hard time convincing myself to leave iTerm for Alacritty, just for a speed boost.

I've never understood why anyone would want a higher-throughput terminal. Better latency I could see, but throughput? I'm not Commander Data. I can only read so fast. If my shell is dumping text at me faster than my terminal can render, it's because I catted something I shouldn't have.

I like a few things about alacritty - it handles file drag and drop better than some IMO; config takes effect immediately and has extensive options (eg arbitrary keyboard mapping); I somehow got shift-enter to work on vim which I had trouble with in other emus; it’s noticeably fast.

On the downside it has no tabs and fewer typical GUI features like right click.

If you love your emulator I wouldn’t suggest switching.

I found I had to start using tmux locally after switching to alacritty, but I count that as a good thing to learn and know.

Alacritty is more lightweight/cruft-free IMO, and cross-platform. Personally I don't want iTerm's settings menu or tabs; I do want one configuration that I can use on multiple platforms when the need arises.

I agree with this, though I still use iTerm over Alacritty simply because iTerm’s font rendering is better (in my opinion).

fd-find is great replacement for find. And tokei is a good tool for some basic stats about your codebase.

Knew I was forgetting a big one. fd is so dang handy.

Some others: dust (like du), procs (like ps), zoxide (z), and sd (like sed)

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