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maxnoeyesterday at 4:39 PM2 repliesview on HN

One would be support for ligatures


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zamalekyesterday at 4:59 PM

Ligatures are a renderer issue, so using alacritty as a lib wouldn't have this issue (it does demonstrate their hardline stance). Another example that would translate is how long it took them to support disambiguation of key combinations: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/6378 (2019-2023). Of course, the maintainers are free to do whatever they want with the project - but such things do make alacritty-as-a-lib an exceptionally bad choice for situations where you want things to just work.

LucasOeyesterday at 5:41 PM

The Zed terminal already supports ligatures.