Ask HN: Hyper vs. iTerm 2?

5 points·Macintosh007··6 comments

I have both Hyper and iTerm on my computer and have never really committed to one or the other. I kinda just switch back and forth hoping I’ll “decided” on one or the other. Thoughts on why someone might prefer one over the other?

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Hyper is great if you need animated cat emojis [0] instead of a blinking cursor in your zsh prompt. It's based on Electron. So, if you like your terminal to perform poorly and take a while to start up, then have at it.

[0] https://github.com/balazssagi/hyper-cat-cursor

I tried hyper once, a few years back. Tried tailing an access log (busy site) what usually wouldn’t of been an issue in good old terminal, but experienced extreme lag. That put me off Hyper, not sure what it’s like these days however. iTerm profiles are handy but I just use terminal and good old recursive search... works quicker for me, so still using standard terminal.

I’ve found kitty super useful for testing multi-service programs

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/remote-control.html

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty

That made difference for me. It's simply ultra fast.

https://blog.christianduerr.com/alacritty_0_5_0_announcement

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24016977

I tried Hyper before, I was fun but the performance is worse than iTerm 2. So I switched back to iTerm 2

iTerm 2 is just a hugely superior app, if you're doing real work in the terminal. otherwise, it probably doesn't matter.

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