kovidgoyal/kitty
If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for you! Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based.
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Where it stands
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Ranks #236 of 2,841 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 8%).
4 releases in the last 90 days, with 446 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a fast, GPU-accelerated, cross-platform terminal emulator with rich features for command-line users.
- Delivers high performance and advanced graphics capabilities by leveraging GPU rendering for smooth terminal operations.
- Use for replacing default terminals to enhance speed and visual experience on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
- Use for developers needing advanced terminal features like multiple windows, tabs, and Unicode support.
- Use for users requiring a customizable and scriptable terminal environment with support for modern terminal protocols.
Should you depend on it?
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License
GPL 3.0
Copyleft: distributing software that includes it generally requires releasing your source under the same license.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
- GPL-style copyleft: including it in distributed software generally requires releasing your source under the same license.
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From the README
= kitty - the fast, feature-rich, cross-platform, GPU based terminal
If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for you!
To ask other questions about kitty usage, use either the https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/discussions/[discussions on GitHub] or the https://www.reddit.com/r/KittyTerminal[Reddit community]
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
1.6K+127
Open issues
16+8
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| mrdoob/three.js | 116.2K | +270 | 65 | 9 days ago |
| kitao/pyxel | 18.4K | +167 | 52 | 54 days ago |
| kovidgoyal/kitty | 35.2K | +0 | 75 | — |
| Category median | 62.8K | +422 | 59 | — |
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