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Hey! I'm midasdf, the maker of zt. I built zt because I daily-drive a HackberryPi Zero — a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W in a handheld cyberdeck case with 512MB of RAM. Existing terminal emulators were either too heavy (ghostty pulls in GPU deps, kitty needs OpenGL) or too slow for this hardware. So I wrote one from scratch in Zig. It renders directly to the framebuffer — no compositor, no GPU, no Xlib....
zt⚡zt — the fastest terminal emulator.
⚡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.
zt⚡zt — the fastest terminal emulator.