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Kitty 0.50

What HN thinks

A terminal release thread that spent half its time arguing about Calibre's UI and whether 'just vibe code it' counts as advice.

Kitty is mature and delightful
Long-time users praise its speed, features, customisation, session restore and new shaders, and note that other terminals adopt its keyboard and graphics protocols.
Ghostty vs Kitty tradeoffs
Some prefer Ghostty's polish and native feel, while others moved back to Kitty over Ghostty's slow Linux startup, crashes and missing layouts or sessions.
Maintainer and design friction
Critics cite Kovid Goyal's prickly manner, the lack of bitmap fonts, SSH terminfo hassles, the reused KiTTY name, and Calibre's notoriously ugly UI.

Consensus: Most agree Kitty is fast and feature-rich and that its protocols are useful. Its author's opinionated style divides people.

Recommended in the comments

Ghostty ↗ (tool): Seen as the main peer, with a more native and polished feel.
WezTerm (tool): Commenters said it works well on Windows, where Kitty is unavailable.
Windows Terminal (tool): Commenters called it good enough on Windows, and its beta supports Kitty protocols.
Vivido ↗ (tool): It beat both Kitty and Ghostty in one commenter's benchmark.
Wintty ↗ (tool): Suggested as a way to get Ghostty on Windows.
Yazi ↗ (tool): Uses Kitty's image protocol to give a full file-explorer experience in the terminal.

Summarised by Claude from the comment thread 9 days ago.

Points: 351
Comments: 218
Best rank: #1
Posted: 2026-11-04 by porridgeraisin
Category: Open source

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