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Terminal-heavy developers who want speed, tabs, and layouts without an account or AI layer.

Why it deserves attention

Kitty renders with the GPU and supports tabs, arbitrary layouts, ligatures, images in the terminal, and a remote-control protocol that lets scripts drive windows. Configuration lives in one plain-text file, and its kitten helper covers tasks like diffing, hyperlinks, and SSH. It is GPL-3.0 with 35,000 GitHub stars and active releases on macOS and Linux. It is deliberately not an AI terminal and has no Windows build, so it suits people who want a fast blank canvas.

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