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WORKED
54/100
ALIGNAI SCORE
CONFIDENCE 100%
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iTerm2
A powerful terminal emulator and replacement for macOS Terminal.
WORKEDAI Build
Pricing
Free
Learning curve
Easy
Time to value
Immediate
BEST FORSoloSmall Team
COMMUNITY SENTIMENT
PositiveNegative
WORKS FOR

General terminal emulation deeply embedded in workflows, Working with vertical tabs, tmux integration and control mode protocol

KEY INSIGHT

It's a mature, feature-rich terminal replacement, but performance issues in specific scenarios may affect some users.

DOESN'T WORK FOR

Handling large amounts of underlined text due to performance bugs

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Community Reviews

Reviews from Reddit, Product Hunt, Hacker News & AlignAI members

WORKED

There are several really good terminals for macOS: iTerm2...

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Terminal app for macOS

WORKED

I use wezterm + tmux on linux, iterm + tmux on mac. (Already an advantage there, tbh)

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Terminal emulator used on Mac, paired with tmux

WORKED

tmux has a well-established control mode protocol designed for iTerm2 that can serialize internal state updates into a stream of text messages.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Its control mode protocol is used as a foundation within tmux for state serialization.

WORKED

I went the similar path of going vertical tabs after having worked that way in iTerm2 for months.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Working with vertical tabs in a terminal

FAILED

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.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Primary terminal emulator for general use and deeply embedded workflows.

WORKED

I use... iterm2... Most of that works just fine just as it did on previous versions of the OS.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Terminal emulator

FAILED

I switched from iTerm2 because at the time (possibly still), iTerm2 had a performance bug where large amounts of underlined text would cause the terminal to slow down noticeably.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: terminal emulator for general use

WORKED

The commenter refers to it as a 'highly mature, feature rich, native offering,' implying a positive, established user experience.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: terminal emulator

WORKED

I switched straight from iTerm2 (after 20 years of iTerm).

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Terminal emulator for 20 years before switching

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