Alacritty Has a Free Terminal: The GPU-Accelerated Terminal Emulator That Renders at 60FPS While Using Less CPU Than iTerm2

Your terminal feels sluggish. Scrolling through build output stutters. Resizing the window takes a beat. You've tried every font rendering setting in iTerm2, but large outputs still chug. The bottleneck isn't your shell — it's your terminal emulator doing rendering on the CPU. Alacritty pushes everything to the GPU. What Alacritty Actually Does Alacritty is a cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust. It offloads text rendering to your graphics card using Open