I've stubbed upon your channel! Awesome! As a new learner of programming, I've really enjoyed booting straight into a terminal, installing programs, and learning Python in Vim editor. I started out with Vim. The terminal feels like driving a car with stick shift. I feel connect - feel closer to the computer, removing all the visual distracting of the goo GUI. LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!!!
I've been using your st build for close to a year, after switching away from urxvt for truecolor support. But today I decided to build it myself. So glad I did, now I can use alt+j/k/l to leave modes and move in vim in one keyboard press again!
Luke: I want my /comfy/ vim bindings everywhere Luke a few moments later: You can't use Ctrl+C or Ctrl+V in terminal, so I use Alt+C and Alt+V Me: ._______.
@Rahmi Acar alt+y works the same as esc+y ;3 heck esc+any normal key works exactly like esc followed by any normal key :p that's why i don't like alt bindings anymore lol
@@AdmiralMaur who needs sigint :V but no appearent ctrl+v appears to be only one that works on elementaryos terminal cause reasons :P i don't use elementary os fwiw
Nice video. Would like to add that "Shift + Insert" actually mostly works for primary clipboard (which is usually what you have highlighted with the mouse) not the secondary (what normal people consider clipboard).
My only issue with st is performance. When I use something like cava for example, it seems to struggle with it or I'll get strange behavior. But other terminals like xterm, kitty, etc. seem fine. I tried adjusting settings for performance but it never really worked well. After using kitty and alacritty for a while I strangely enough found myself going to xterm. I never even considered xterm prior.. it was always st, kitty, alacritty, termite urxvt... then I was like.. what about xterm? I gave it a shot and I've been using it for months now with no issues.
I really like xterm and still have it if I need something trustworthy. (I really have xfe (x file explorer) that comes with xterm. Urxvt is also really good
You said in you channel reboot video that your system is pretty stable now. So can you please do a video on backing up your Arch system and basically how to safeguard yourself from your system breaking due to updates and stuff?
I've created the Xresorces text file inside .config and set the transparency there, plus I've changed the transparency in st/config.h but it does not work, my terminal is fully opaque. Any ideas anyone?
im starting using ST i clone your repo, how you make you luke@art set in that color i mine does not look like that. Do i need to do something else ? Thank you for your video
How do I make st my default terminal in Linuxmint. After installation it's not available in the list of prefered applications in linux mint. I tried running `sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator`, st isn't available there as well. This could be a dumb question.
I've been messing with this stuff for years but still feel dumb... I installed it with yay on Artix. When I run "st" I get an error "could not allocate color 'BACKGROUND'"
The copy output of last command is very useful. Would it be possible to achieve something like this but instead of copying, just have it scroll the terminal to the beginning of the output when it occurred? Or even just the last command, without the selection. Is there any terminal that provides this functionality?
I'm struggling to set st as my default terminal instead of konsol in manjaro kde plasma. Tried default application option; didn't work. Any suggestion would be appreciated.
i would like to ask you one thing regarding the arch linux mr Luke..... after installing the arch linux what are the things are installed or modified to look like your system .... because your arch linux customization is looking really nice and very awesome .... could you please tell me what did you do after installing the arch linux......
Is there a way to open a new st session based on the current one? The idea es to clone/mirror same path, etc on a new st. I've tried with a st-copyout alike script, but I couldn't. Great work Luke.
I have a problem with following a links. Usually when i want follow some link in mutt ST cut part of this link, so it is no valid when i follow it. Like email confirmation links, they are usually quite large.
Are you using my build or the default build with the link follower? In my build, I have external pipe find urls from the entire screen only after deleting newlines to avoid this problem and I can follow multi-line urls without a problem.
@@LukeSmithxyz yes, i am using your build. I think it's a problem of mutt. Because i see + on the begining of the line with multiline links. Think thats why url follower don't parse it completely.
Hi Luke Smith, I have been watching a lot of your videos and I would like to know how to remove the title from the window bar that I open. To make it more or less like yours. I'm using i3wm with all the configurations that are already preinstalled. If you can give me a hint of how I do it, I would be grateful. Thank you and continue with your excellent work.
I did use the scrollback patch, but it is iffy to get it to work on different systems of mine, so I just use tmux. I also change to font to be compatible with lsd and powerline.
Hey Luke, i just started using yours LARBS file, to start understanding how to create my configuration. Today after installing tty-clock, my terminal display everything with a too wide letter spacing like: [ U s e r @ t e s t ] . But when i change font the word seems overlapping. St seems it doesn't have nothing related letter spacing. And other font overlapping themselves. Any idea? I tried to modified Xresource in .config, i didn't find other resource that i can modify
I don't know why but st doesn't quite respond to my .Xresources (yes, I do execute xrdb, even with -merge), but when I used urxvt it worked normally... Anyone?
So, I just ask this question on your previous ST video: Cool... just trying st terminal now. One question: does st terminal supports font ligatures? I use Fira Code with Konsole and works fine but not with st terminal. Thanks for your video.
thanks Luke, you are the best. can you make a video about config dwm in gentoo/calculate linux? i twice stuck there unpleasant, if you have a time. thanks! have a good a long life! greetings from Slovakia.
It's probably on X configuration files. I forgot the actual folder but it's on some /etc/X11 directories that has some aliases to each of the font features: anti-aliasing, hinting,...
Hi! I've been using st for a while now and there is one thing I haven't been able to figure out. In the config.h file there is an array called "shortcuts" and a little lower an array called "key". I changed some of the key bindings to my personal preference, but I couldn't figure out how to make the Del key delete the character to the right of my cursor. I looked through the key array, but I have no idea what these key codes are. Nor do I know if this is even the right place to look .. Maybe someone knows how to do this (?) :)
Gonna be great if u used plumber. I mean Alt+o (for open urls) could be generalized via Alt+y (copy it) and then some binding for plumb whatever u copied for plumber and run it.
Serious question: so the "suckless philosophy" prohibits have a configuration file. But with st, the source code is the config file, only you add the extra step of recompiling to just restarting or (horror of horrors) having any config changes take effect immediately. I tried st, and I have to say I just didn't see the point...
In a config file you can often be limited in the options that the source code gives you. But with these suckless programs, because it's designed around editing the source code, you aren't limited in any way except for your knowledge of C. You can pretty much program any feature your imagination can come up with. Assuming you know how to code it of course.
The thing that not having a config file grants you is eliminating the need for parsing a config file. Since everything is compiled in, the compiler deals with the parsing. However, it is a bit off to have to recompile an app to change config. It doesn't scale if you want to tweak aesthetic things for all of your suckless apps to make them look good and match. I think that there's a best of both worlds solution, but it ends up not being liked by either side: make config a per-user dynamically linked library. Oddly enough, this config use case is precisely what dynamic linking is actually really good at, forcing all linked processes to use the same values. But because it's code, config can also include full-blown functions, which is way more powerful than most config languages.
been trying this out on my new arch machine, but it's totally not transparent at all as I see it. I see the "float alpha = 0.92; " in config.h, but it doesn't seem to work? Do I just have to adjust that number or do I need to be using Xresources to make it work?
I've created the Xresorces text file inside .config and set the transparency there, plus I've changed the transparency in st/config.h but it does not work, my terminal is fully opaque. Any ideas anyone?
I would like to discuss about wether it's better to use "j" for bigger and "k" for smaller font size, because j in vim essentially means "going down". What do you perfer for yourself?
if ur using arch: yay -S st-luke-git (u need Aur configured and yay helper for this command) or if ur not then check his description for GitHub link and the instructions are there
Whenever I watch these kinds of video, I always wonder do they really use their system on daily basis...or they switch to something else like mac or windows.
He might think it's too bloated not just because it's written in rust, but the project itself isn't easy to patch without substantial rewrites to go around the batch of features that st doesn't come with by default. Might wanna ask Distrotube how he "patches" Alacritty and if he thinks it's better than st as far as "normie" terminal emulators that don't require manual patching like st.
@@trafficcone3620 I'd like a lot of safety benefits from rust to be in a language that's not as bloated and intrusive to my flow state as rust, but here's my experience with rust and Alacritty. There's like 250 dependencies needed for Alacritty in addition to the fact that a simple "hello world" program is 180kb when the c version is 8-16kb (with strip and size optimized compilations applied to both of these binaries). All the good info on minimizing rust binaries was from 2018 and not much of it applies to today's rust. I know that panics that don't about immediately, jemalloc, and the runtime contributes plenty to the bloated rust binary. Any hoops you need to jump through to get a most-compact rust binary isn't really worth it IMO. As much as I love the promises of Alacritty, it's not for my taste as far as pushing the limits of minimalism while also offering a simply extensible terminal instead of something that comes with a healthy enough feature list only to not be able to expand upon it without moving mountains. Ultimately, a rust to c transpiler would solve the minimal binary problem, but there's still the issue of the project's philosophy that doesn't align as well with what st offers. For what I do, st is simply good enough and I'm happy that we can both live with our tastes together. :)
I've stubbed upon your channel! Awesome! As a new learner of programming, I've really enjoyed booting straight into a terminal, installing programs, and learning Python in Vim editor. I started out with Vim. The terminal feels like driving a car with stick shift. I feel connect - feel closer to the computer, removing all the visual distracting of the goo GUI. LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!!!
How's it going ?
1 year later be honest how far did you come
@@larry_the He never come again :) After 2 years nothing happend XD
He's stuck in a loop
@@theeternalstudent3118 he's living in the assembler now
I've been using your st build for close to a year, after switching away from urxvt for truecolor support. But today I decided to build it myself. So glad I did, now I can use alt+j/k/l to leave modes and move in vim in one keyboard press again!
and now I have a freshly updated version with my patches rebased onto master.
Been using your st build for four months, works flawlessly thank you luke
looks coomplicated why not use windows instead
troll comment
@@user-no3tu9kh3p lmao
Or use an iMac, but I'm pretty sure he can't afford one 👌
/s
Ya I hear Windows has Linux now ;)
@@jamesm5192 wsl sucks balls though
@8:14 what kind of David Copperfield trick you committed to uncomment those lines in current paragraph?
Luke: I want my /comfy/ vim bindings everywhere
Luke a few moments later: You can't use Ctrl+C or Ctrl+V in terminal, so I use Alt+C and Alt+V
Me: ._______.
I also wondered why not just Alt+y and Alt+p.
it should've been alt+y and alt+p :V
I consider Ctrl + C / Ctrl + V the must annoying.
Alt+c is used like a diacritical mark in my layout and that's why I cannot use Luke's build, but overall Luke has done good job with st
@Rahmi Acar alt+y works the same as esc+y ;3
heck esc+any normal key works exactly like esc followed by any normal key :p that's why i don't like alt bindings anymore lol
"no terminal will have ... ctrl v for pasting"
elementaryos: hold my tux
wtfff thats gay
@@kot3405 what is? :p
Bro do you even sigint?
@@AdmiralMaur who needs sigint :V
but no appearent ctrl+v appears to be only one that works on elementaryos terminal cause reasons :P
i don't use elementary os fwiw
There is ctrl shift v
Nice video. Would like to add that "Shift + Insert" actually mostly works for primary clipboard (which is usually what you have highlighted with the mouse) not the secondary (what normal people consider clipboard).
I aspire to be these level of nerdy effective.
How to comment / uncomment entire section in VIM without visually selecting it, while in the middle of the section, like at 8:14?
@@baovu3488 Thanks m8 that's a huge help
Your content is solid gold!
Imagine Luke doing live streams
didnt he do podcasts?
There was a week in which he did a bunch of livestreams with other various channels
Guess waht
Along with st, I also use guake. I did a time tree command to test the speed, and both came out the same speed, faster that the i3 terminal and xterm
My only issue with st is performance. When I use something like cava for example, it seems to struggle with it or I'll get strange behavior. But other terminals like xterm, kitty, etc. seem fine.
I tried adjusting settings for performance but it never really worked well. After using kitty and alacritty for a while I strangely enough found myself going to xterm. I never even considered xterm prior.. it was always st, kitty, alacritty, termite urxvt... then I was like.. what about xterm? I gave it a shot and I've been using it for months now with no issues.
Try urxvt
I really like xterm and still have it if I need something trustworthy. (I really have xfe (x file explorer) that comes with xterm. Urxvt is also really good
You said in you channel reboot video that your system is pretty stable now. So can you please do a video on backing up your Arch system and basically how to safeguard yourself from your system breaking due to updates and stuff?
A filesystem that supports snapshotting. So lvm, btrfs.
A separate home volume or partition.
absolute fucking perfect time! I just downloaded it from github 3 hours ago
I really like this new video series! Awesome!
I've created the Xresorces text file inside .config and set the transparency there, plus I've changed the transparency in st/config.h but it does not work, my terminal is fully opaque. Any ideas anyone?
Are you running xcompmgr or picom? You need one of those running for those settings to take effect - at least for me
@@christopherappleby7453 Thank you kind stranger. Yep for terminal transparency to work I had to install a program.
11:54 I installed that font and set the configuration in dwm but I still can't put emojis in the statusbar.
@@lordrusk6118 Dude I can't thank you enough! It worked perfectly. Thank you very much!!
@Luke Hi! Don't these st bindings conflict with other tools you use in your terminal? Like vi, less, etc.
im starting using ST i clone your repo, how you make you luke@art set in that color i mine does not look like that. Do i need to do something else ? Thank you for your video
I am new to arch luke, the command shown at start to install 'st' is not founding target and I am using 'paru'.
it looked great in mint, but has some kind of funky scrunched together font, on manjaro(xfce) how to force it to use a more sane font?
How do I make st my default terminal in Linuxmint. After installation it's not available in the list of prefered applications in linux mint. I tried running `sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator`, st isn't available there as well. This could be a dumb question.
I've been messing with this stuff for years but still feel dumb...
I installed it with yay on Artix. When I run "st" I get an error "could not allocate color 'BACKGROUND'"
Is there anyway to turn off the terminal colors? Its overriding my oh my zsh theme and I would like to get it back
It works great but the display bugs out when you scroll back down and you reach the end.. Like it removes the newlines before your prompt
The copy output of last command is very useful. Would it be possible to achieve something like this but instead of copying, just have it scroll the terminal to the beginning of the output when it occurred? Or even just the last command, without the selection. Is there any terminal that provides this functionality?
I'm struggling to set st as my default terminal instead of konsol in manjaro kde plasma. Tried default application option; didn't work. Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Hi,Luke, could you show me how to define the shortcut for changing the size of terminal input? thanks
Is there a way to set scroll back cache to unlimited ?
Is there a way to copy the output of a command during a tmux/ssh session?
How do I know what kind of settings I can set using Xresources? Like is there a command that lists all the options xrdb can set?
You can set literally any variable by any name you want, it's just an issue of what programs are looking for that variable.
@@LukeSmithxyz Oh, I see, thank you!
What command are you using to delete all of those /* */ in a block together?
vim plugin github.com/tpope/vim-commentary#commentaryvim . gcap to uncomment a paragraph
Its not clear to me where and how to change the font. Ligatures are important to me.
does it support UTF-8?
i would like to ask you one thing regarding the arch linux mr Luke.....
after installing the arch linux what are the things are installed or modified to look like your system ....
because your arch linux customization is looking really nice and very awesome ....
could you please tell me what did you do after installing the arch linux......
Is there a way to open a new st session based on the current one? The idea es to clone/mirror same path, etc on a new st. I've tried with a st-copyout alike script, but I couldn't. Great work Luke.
Dismiss it. Solved with st-newterm patch.
in dmenu and in command navigation you are using the cursor keys?
I love your build but when i use it i have got a lot of lag when scrolling so i switch to urxvt but your st is very cool
this video was recorded a month ago
His date in his status bar says the 16th. So just a week ago.
I have a problem with following a links. Usually when i want follow some link in mutt ST cut part of this link, so it is no valid when i follow it. Like email confirmation links, they are usually quite large.
Are you using my build or the default build with the link follower? In my build, I have external pipe find urls from the entire screen only after deleting newlines to avoid this problem and I can follow multi-line urls without a problem.
@@LukeSmithxyz yes, i am using your build. I think it's a problem of mutt. Because i see + on the begining of the line with multiline links. Think thats why url follower don't parse it completely.
Will you do more LaTeX/Rmarkdown/*roff stuff?
need more of groff
How do you disable transparency on your st build?
What keybind are you using for commenting/uncommenting stuff in .Xresources?
Likely a macro
Or nerdcommenter
github.com/preservim/nerdcommenter
Judging by his nvimrc, this should come from tpopes plugin vim-commentary
I like this terminal but I installed different version, what version do you recomend to install?
Nice Vid!
How did you get Dmenu to display at the top of st and not at the top of your screen?
dmenu -w windowid
@@gaurangshukla8235 thanks!
Is it possible to recreate urxvt's fake transparency in st?
Hi Luke Smith, I have been watching a lot of your videos and I would like to know how to remove the title from the window bar that I open. To make it more or less like yours. I'm using i3wm with all the configurations that are already preinstalled. If you can give me a hint of how I do it, I would be grateful. Thank you and continue with your excellent work.
btw u did inspired me to use tilling window manager......o_O
add space to the edges of your status bar to stay consistent with the tags section.
Most terminals by default have you press Ctrl+Shift+C to Copy and Ctrl+Shift+V to Paste things in Terminal.
Is there any way to change the letterSpace: in st ? Mine has changed, and is too wide now !
Change your monospace font. That's an error in an upgrade to the Inconsolata font. Out of my control.
@@LukeSmithxyz Changed to Liberation Mono ... st-luke-git works again. Thanks !
Is there a way of creating new terminals by splitting the view horizontally and vertically just like in the terminator terminal?
do you mean a tiling wm or tmux ?
@@julius7574 Yeah exactly like that
@@venomdedpol1179 okey?
Luke! How are you uncommenting and commenting blocks of text in vim?
I know I mentioned this before but you should put the key bindings of your suckless builds in the wiki of each repo.
I did use the scrollback patch, but it is iffy to get it to work on different systems of mine, so I just use tmux. I also change to font to be compatible with lsd and powerline.
The alt+o is neat, does it parse the prompt?
Hey Luke, i just started using yours LARBS file, to start understanding how to create my configuration. Today after installing tty-clock, my terminal display everything with a too wide letter spacing like:
[ U s e r @ t e s t ] . But when i change font the word seems overlapping. St seems it doesn't have nothing related letter spacing. And other font overlapping themselves. Any idea? I tried to modified Xresource in .config, i didn't find other resource that i can modify
github.com/LukeSmithxyz/LARBS/issues/186
@@LukeSmithxyz thank you so much, work really well as a work-around.
I love this video!!
@LukeSmith Can you please share your st enhancements that you should in the video ?
How can I do my st scroll back?
How did you get that theme on github @ 3:58 ?
Add-on
Is there a thingy for Mac?? I would love this kind of terminal for my day to day work.
yeah, you can install arch on your macbook
@@AtomToast I tried... the admin guy didn't like it ... Stuck with OSX for now.. Until I get a replacement after 1 year..
How do you keep it up to date with the upstream changes of st?
me thinks it is
git checkout for his changes
git checkout master && git pull && git checkout && git rebase master for the keeping up with master xD
git fetch --all
git rebase upstream/master
I don't know why but st doesn't quite respond to my .Xresources (yes, I do execute xrdb, even with -merge), but when I used urxvt it worked normally... Anyone?
are you going between 2 computers to record? I notice how the colors always change :)
@Luke Smith Do you use tmux?
Anybody knows what is that Brave extension that sits next to Stylus?
You need a key to establish to increase the font to be visible in just two key
So, I just ask this question on your previous ST video: Cool... just trying st terminal now. One question: does st terminal supports font ligatures? I use Fira Code with Konsole and works fine but not with st terminal. Thanks for your video.
Yes. His build has the ligatures patch. I just tested it with Fira Code and it renders ligatures well :)
When running the Alt + o script, how do you get the dmenu interface only on the terminal?
ua-cam.com/video/5E9bO5ZURcs/v-deo.html
thanks Luke, you are the best. can you make a video about config dwm in gentoo/calculate linux? i twice stuck there unpleasant, if you have a time. thanks! have a good a long life! greetings from Slovakia.
Can you do a video on how you get your fonts so crisp?
It's probably on X configuration files. I forgot the actual folder but it's on some /etc/X11 directories that has some aliases to each of the font features: anti-aliasing, hinting,...
What is the github theme you use?
Gruvbox addon
would you recommend ST for me as a beginner? been using linux for 2 months. i also use vim.
Install Luke's build and try it out. Worst case scenario is you don't like it, uninstall, and go back to your current terminal.
How did you uncomment like that when you changed themes on the terminal?
Hi! I've been using st for a while now and there is one thing I haven't been able to figure out.
In the config.h file there is an array called "shortcuts" and a little lower an array called "key". I changed some of the key bindings to my personal preference, but I couldn't figure out how to make the Del key delete the character to the right of my cursor. I looked through the key array, but I have no idea what these key codes are. Nor do I know if this is even the right place to look ..
Maybe someone knows how to do this (?) :)
Put "tput smkx" in your bashrc
How do you get the syntax highlighting while typing commands?
ZSH With zsh-syntax-highlighting IIRC
github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting ig he uses this
ST is a normie terminal now. I switched to alacritty to get away from the noobs.
ikr??? I use xterm now since I noticed it has a lesser memory footprint and faster opening times
pfsh, I switched to a gentoo stage4 usb stick. that's what elitists use nowadays
@@Peshyy I use a raspberry pi with a telegraph button to code in binary as my dd
I just use whatever works best for me. Try it, you might like it. ;)
Peshyy only using a TTY of course
How do you set vim to uncomment so fast ?
How do I use this to stream pornography?
what magic was used 8:14?
nerd magic
github.com/tpope/vim-commentary
Alt-o and all other commands which use the Dmenu thing do not work for me
did you install dmenu?
Gonna be great if u used plumber.
I mean Alt+o (for open urls) could be generalized via Alt+y (copy it) and then some binding for plumb whatever u copied for plumber and run it.
Serious question: so the "suckless philosophy" prohibits have a configuration file. But with st, the source code is the config file, only you add the extra step of recompiling to just restarting or (horror of horrors) having any config changes take effect immediately. I tried st, and I have to say I just didn't see the point...
In a config file you can often be limited in the options that the source code gives you.
But with these suckless programs, because it's designed around editing the source code, you aren't limited in any way except for your knowledge of C. You can pretty much program any feature your imagination can come up with. Assuming you know how to code it of course.
The thing that not having a config file grants you is eliminating the need for parsing a config file. Since everything is compiled in, the compiler deals with the parsing. However, it is a bit off to have to recompile an app to change config. It doesn't scale if you want to tweak aesthetic things for all of your suckless apps to make them look good and match.
I think that there's a best of both worlds solution, but it ends up not being liked by either side: make config a per-user dynamically linked library. Oddly enough, this config use case is precisely what dynamic linking is actually really good at, forcing all linked processes to use the same values. But because it's code, config can also include full-blown functions, which is way more powerful than most config languages.
been trying this out on my new arch machine, but it's totally not transparent at all as I see it. I see the "float alpha = 0.92;
" in config.h, but it doesn't seem to work? Do I just have to adjust that number or do I need to be using Xresources to make it work?
I've created the Xresorces text file inside .config and set the transparency there, plus I've changed the transparency in st/config.h but it does not work, my terminal is fully opaque. Any ideas anyone?
I would like to discuss about wether it's better to use "j" for bigger and "k" for smaller font size, because j in vim essentially means "going down". What do you perfer for yourself?
Didn't you switch to Void?
how is his pacman -Q syntax highlighted? goddamn
What window manager do you use?
8:15. What keystroke allows you to uncomment like that?
If anyones still wondering, NERDcommentor allows “gcc” to comment any highlighted block
how do I install st need help I'm new to Linux
if ur using arch:
yay -S st-luke-git (u need Aur configured and yay helper for this command)
or if ur not then check his description for GitHub link and the instructions are there
Whenever I watch these kinds of video, I always wonder do they really use their system on daily basis...or they switch to something else like mac or windows.
A true limux hobo would never touch a windows machine
the SIMPle terminal... 😏
Just uninstalled.
@@LukeSmithxyz What?
Anyone knows a font that has good support for asian characters aswell?
Freefont
If you're looking for pretty, that's a different thing
noto-fonts-cjk
Going crazy with st-theming: github.com/axiros/suckless-add-ons ;-)
Did you see how fast he comment that section 9:45 ?. DAAMN, how tha hell?
Has anyone tried to successfully enable ligatures?
Try alacritty if you haven't already
He might think it's too bloated not just because it's written in rust, but the project itself isn't easy to patch without substantial rewrites to go around the batch of features that st doesn't come with by default. Might wanna ask Distrotube how he "patches" Alacritty and if he thinks it's better than st as far as "normie" terminal emulators that don't require manual patching like st.
@@SimGunther why would it be bloated because of rust? I love software in rust because it is faster than c++ and memory safe
@@trafficcone3620 I'd like a lot of safety benefits from rust to be in a language that's not as bloated and intrusive to my flow state as rust, but here's my experience with rust and Alacritty. There's like 250 dependencies needed for Alacritty in addition to the fact that a simple "hello world" program is 180kb when the c version is 8-16kb (with strip and size optimized compilations applied to both of these binaries). All the good info on minimizing rust binaries was from 2018 and not much of it applies to today's rust. I know that panics that don't about immediately, jemalloc, and the runtime contributes plenty to the bloated rust binary. Any hoops you need to jump through to get a most-compact rust binary isn't really worth it IMO.
As much as I love the promises of Alacritty, it's not for my taste as far as pushing the limits of minimalism while also offering a simply extensible terminal instead of something that comes with a healthy enough feature list only to not be able to expand upon it without moving mountains. Ultimately, a rust to c transpiler would solve the minimal binary problem, but there's still the issue of the project's philosophy that doesn't align as well with what st offers. For what I do, st is simply good enough and I'm happy that we can both live with our tastes together. :)
@@SimGunther really, I use void Linux and just used xbps and there was like 2 dependencies for alacritty
i want this background