⚡zt is a terminal emulator that starts in 5.6ms and pushes 73 MB/s throughput — faster than st, alacritty, kitty, and ghostty on the same hardware.
It renders directly to the Linux framebuffer (no X11 needed), X11 via shared memory, Wayland via pure wire protocol, or macOS via Cocoa. No GPU, no runtime dependencies, no bloat.
Built for a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W with 512MB RAM, but runs on any Linux or macOS system.
Free, open source (MIT). Zero dependencies. Single static binary.
