This is a product with a history of overpromising on the release date, but I'm being more realistic with the roadmap and streaming progress on Twitch.
If it helps think of it as the indie, non-AI version of Warp [1].
[1] https://warp.dev
I recently saw a video about a terminal emulator being developed in Zig by Mitchell Hashimoto.
Googled now and found the text of the talk, which links to the video.
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-and-useful-zig-pattern...
Of all tested terminals xterm is faster only than konsole.
Startup is instant too.
It has comparatively very good "fidelity", giving usable screen outputs with most applications without tinkering.
A factor of 2x in throughput is nothing to sweat about I think, given that xterm is fast enough.
Haven't verified the benchmarks in your link, and not tried kitty, but I believe the bench did not test xterm with bitmap fonts which I believe are significantly faster.
I'd also look at CPU rasterization performance. I often don't have graphics acceleration available (in a VM).
How is the privacy aspect? Does it use ChatGPT? Do you support any local LLMs?
Terminal Click is made by a indie hacker (me) and will be selling copies on release. You’ll own the binary and that’s that.
Having to open a RAM-hungry application to execute command-line applications is just negative progress.