iTerm is slow as fuck. cat large files in iTerm vs Ghostty and you will see the difference. Ghostty always stays responsive, and has much lower memory usage. The typing latency on Ghostty is so low it really enriches the terminal experience. People still using stuff like iTerm2 are likely just either not using their terminal very often or are ignorant to the wider terminal emulator market.
Yeah I guess the only reason I stick with iTerm over some new thing is because I'm either not in the terminal all the time (I just killed an emacs process and my shell reported it was running for 191 hours, 43 min) or because I'm just a big dumb dumb for not using the same program you do, or too dumb to be aware of the "wider terminal emulator market" lmao. Ok man.
Also why would I cat a huge file? That's what less is for. Like wow, in some pretend worse case scenario where you cat out some huge binary file, Ghostty is what, how many ms quicker to paint? Wow! It saved 40MB of memory doing that too, my computer has 16GB I don't care. None of these reasons are very compelling to give up a mature terminal deeply embedded into my workflows, with great tmux integration, and a searchable scrollback buffer.
