9 engineers on Hacker News describe using Alacritty first-hand: 2 endorse it, 3 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I've been using alacritty with tmux because I don't need all the bells and whistles in iterm2.”
endorse · personal · jacobsenscott · 2021-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It would lag and duplicate my pastes, which would then also crash certain other programs.”
regret · personal · opan · 2021-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using foot for a little while after I had some libgl issues with my alacritty install that I didn't at the time have time to dig into.”
regret · personal · mplanchard · 2021-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using alacritty, another new-ish GPU accelerated terminal emulator, and I can confirm that its performance is better than gnome-terminal”
endorse · personal · hairui · 2018-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Alacritty for its GPU acceleration long ago.”
neutral · personal · kccqzy · 2026-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Alacritty so I can switch back and forth from my work's Mac to my own Linux”
neutral · personal · tecleandor · 2024-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I actually went alacratty => wezterm => kitty.”
neutral · personal · jasonjayr · 2021-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?