After having used st as my main terminal for a while now:

  • Most things work just like in xiate, but I did patch st heavily. Took quite some time to do this, but it was also fun, so it was worth it.
  • st uses much less memory than xiate (12-20 MB for st, 40 MB+ for xiate) ā€“ but way more CPU time. šŸ˜… When I move another window on top of an st window (so that st has to do a lot of redraws), the CPU spikes so much that my whole X server begins to stutter.
  • Thereā€™s no point in denying it: Font rendering is way better in xiate, because it can use the whole GTK-Pango-Whatever stuff. Thatā€™s a lot of code and could arguably be viewed as ā€œbloatā€, but the results are also better. Font stuff is not trivial, itā€™s inherently complex.

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