Bug#980136: RFP: zutty -- high-end terminal for low-end systems
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : zutty
Version : 0.6
Upstream Author : Tom Szilagyi
* URL : https://tomscii.sig7.se/zutty/
* License : GPL-3+
Programming Lang: C++
Description : high-end terminal for low-end systems
Zutty is a terminal emulator for the X Window System, functionally
similar to several other X terminal emulators such as xterm, rxvt and
countless others. It is also similar to other, much more modern,
GPU-accelerated terminal emulators such as Alacritty and Kitty. What
really sets Zutty apart is its radically simple, yet extremely
efficient rendering implementation, enabling it to perform seamlessly
in resource-constrained environments where others struggle or fail. At
the same time, Zutty aims to implement a sufficiently complete feature
set to make it useful for a wide range of users, and strives to
conform to relevant (actual or de-facto) standards.
Zutty is written in straightforward C++ and only relies on OpenGL ES
3.1 for rendering, making it trivially portable to windowing systems
other than X and operating systems other than Linux. Zutty provides a
clean implementation written from scratch, resulting in a minimal,
maintainable, modern codebase unencumbered by historical baggage.
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There's been a bunch of those recently, but this one strikes me as
interesting because of its minimalistic approach (e.g. st) combined
with high performance (e.g. kitty) and conformity (e.g. xterm).
A performance comparison is what brought me there:
https://tomscii.sig7.se/2020/12/A-totally-biased-comparison-of-Zutty
No plan to maintain it, but figured it might be interesting to Debian
folks.
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