Attyx: GPU-Accelerated Terminal Emulator Built with Zig Programming Language
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Summary
Attyx is a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator built from scratch in the Zig programming language. It provides built-in features like sessions, splits, tabs, popups, status bars, and command palettes that typically require tmux and extensive configuration. The project started as a weekend experiment to understand how terminals work and learn Zig, but has evolved into a daily-driver tool that's under 5MB and uses Metal on macOS and OpenGL on Linux.
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Sessions, splits, tabs, popups, a status bar, command palette — the stuff you'd usually need tmux and a bunch of config for, just works out of the box.
Metal on macOS, OpenGL on Linux, under 5MB.
I started Attyx because I wanted to understand how terminals actually work — and I wanted to learn Zig.
Weekend experiment that got out of hand. I'm daily-driving it now and it's solid enough for re
Fast programmable GPU-accelerated terminal emulator built with Zig - semos-labs/attyx
