Tabby – A Terminal for the Modern Age
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·September 17, 2025h4ch1
swah
The "native input editing" on Warp did spoil me though. The block feature is also super nice. Especially in the days of copying and pasting from AI tools.
I tested all others (wezterm, ghostty, kitty, rio..) but this comfort trumps the speed or minimalism for me.
Just want a Warp without any AI.
ramon156
Do people still use alacrity? It still feels like the most sane choice, although kitty and ghostty's rendering seems more robust. I guess I'll need to give them a go sometime
h4ch1
Last I personally used Alacritty was 3-4 years back on Linux w/ wayland got some weird rendering bugs, switched to st (https://st.suckless.org/) for a good while.
When I got a Macbook last year, I did a "best terminal macos" search and evaluated multiple terminals; kitty, ghostty, iterm2 and wezterm.
settled on ghostty because it just felt faster for terminal refreshes when I use vite, had tabs, could easily theme it to use ayu-dark. Nothing too extreme, just personal reasons
iterm2 was fine as well, nothing special; wezterm and kitty just felt like linux apps that were on macos as well. YMMV.
scabel
I use alacritty. I tried ghostty but not supported on my old home mac, felt slower, and some of the config was not robust. Same with Wezterm, felt slow. Alacritty has worked with no problem everywhere I installed it. Only annoyance was once when the config changed from yaml to toml. Other than that, happy user of alacritty.
exq
I still do. It's faster than Kitty and Ghostty, and I don't make use of the extra features those provide. I don't use glyphs nor rendered images, and I use a tiling WM so tabs aren't that important to me. Alacritty does what I need it to, and does it well.
k_bx
Been driving my use for the last year or so, perfect as a thin wrapper around tmux (which is the same on macOS and Linux).
I'll give iTerm2 another try, has many shiny features like touchID-sudo and such, otherwise don't understand what could possibly be better in ghostty/kitty
kubafu
Happy alacritty user here (Wayland + sway)!
benrutter
[delayed]
tonnydourado
Of all the things I never wanted, a terminal implemented on JavaScript is easily on the top 10 that I never wanted the most.
For Windows, Windows Terminal is pretty ok.
sevg
How does this have so many stars? As much as ghostty and kitty combined, even though I hadn’t heard of it until today.
dsign
I've used it for a few years; can't complain really. Perhaps it's a bit slow, but I don't notice because I already use VSCode and IntelliJ and have enteprise tooling and Teams in my Mac, so if I were to run a piece of fast software it will probably feel jarring and seizure-inducing.
mzajc
> Tabby (formerly Terminus)
Apparently this has nothing to do with the other terminus [0]?
akaike
It's cool, but when I tested it last time, it was very, very laggy and very slow. Not sure if that's the definition of "modern".
BlindEyeHalo
Considering all apps become more slow and laggy every year it seems on point.
Semaphor
Terminus 2019, 61 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19988557
Tabby 2021, 107 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29553767
Tabby 2023, 92 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35111397
Tabby 2023, 72 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36607323
nylonstrung
This is a rebrand of terminus
block_dagger
Why another terminal?
oneeyedpigeon
There's a set of features in the README that you can view if you follow the link:
- Integrated SSH and Telnet client and connection manager
- Integrated serial terminal
- Theming and color schemes
- Fully configurable shortcuts and multi-chord shortcuts
- Split panes
- Remembers your tabs
- PowerShell (and PS Core), WSL, Git-Bash, Cygwin, MSYS2, Cmder and CMD support
- Direct file transfer from/to SSH sessions via Zmodem
- Full Unicode support including double-width characters
- Doesn't choke on fast-flowing outputs
- Proper shell experience on Windows including tab completion (via Clink)
- Integrated encrypted container for SSH secrets and configuration
- SSH, SFTP and Telnet client available as a web app (also self-hosted).
anon1395
- extra slowness
Waiter waiter, more core applications using Electron!
Just needed these two reasons to not even try it out.
* Google Analytics on by default
* >100mb download
For a native terminal I'll happily use kitty or ghostty
For a SSH client Zoc (https://www.emtec.com/zoc/) hasn't disappointed me yet, and even then I almost just always ssh through my terminal.