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0 pointsfloatboth6y ago0 comments

I think Alacritty was first. At least it became popular first.

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dijit6y ago

Seems you are right, I always assumed alacritty was derived from the ideas in kitty (and hence the name being similar)

first commit in alacritty: Sun Feb 21 08:15:41 2016 -0800

first commit in kitty: Fri Oct 14 12:33:27 2016 +0530

The names are similar because they both do a wordplay on TTY (teletypewriter)

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0 pointsfloatboth6y ago0 comments

I think Alacritty was first. At least it became popular first.

dijit6y ago

Seems you are right, I always assumed alacritty was derived from the ideas in kitty (and hence the name being similar)

first commit in alacritty: Sun Feb 21 08:15:41 2016 -0800

first commit in kitty: Fri Oct 14 12:33:27 2016 +0530

The names are similar because they both do a wordplay on TTY (teletypewriter)

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse