# Rmux

16 Hacker News commenters recommended Rmux and 7 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended as a faster, programmable tmux alternative with Windows support and a Playwright-style SDK for scripting and testing terminal UIs. Critics say tmux and zellij already cover most of it.

## Why people recommend it

- Programmable SDK for scripting and testing (4 comments): "Having an actual library for interactions that isn't just a wrapper around the CLI seems like it would be a huge improvement" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222480)) "And it enables integration testing too. I hope it will foster the release of more cool TUIs." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223897)) "you can finally do acceptance/integration tests on your terminal user interfaces" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220163))
- Windows support and async SDK (3 comments): "windows support, and the sdk. native async "wait until" something appears on your terminal, so you don't spam send-keys" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220327)) "windows support + async + public sdk. You can rewrite zellij with rmux, but not the opposite." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220379)) "rmux is a faster and more elegant clone of tmux + windows support + programmable sdk" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220663))
- Landing page and demos (3 comments): "I found the landing page covering exactly what the product does, with nice demos and examples." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220287)) "I genuinely loved your landing page." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222172)) "the site is actually quite cool" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223917))
- Faster than tmux or zellij (2 comments): "rmux is much faster than tmux or zellj, I did some internal benchmark and it's promising." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220352)) "rmux is a faster and more elegant clone of tmux + windows support + programmable sdk" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220663))

## What people warn about

- Website looks AI-made, flashy or inaccurate (4 comments): "The paragraph on the website inviting us to switch to rmux from tmux claims that tmux is programmed in C++." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220403)) "Not to mention those absolutely horrible scroll animations." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220410)) "The website is a little too obviously made by Claude." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220069))
- tmux or zellij already do this (3 comments): "everything mentioned in the readme is already trivially possible with tmux or zellij" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220302)) "not sure why I would use this above tmux which works well" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220111)) "there are alternatives such as zellij and rmux" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266884))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [tmux](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tmux.md): 411 recommend
- [Herdr](https://hackerapproved.com/p/herdr.md): 232 recommend
- [Zellij](https://hackerapproved.com/p/zellij.md): 93 recommend
- [GNU Screen](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gnu-screen.md): 33 recommend
- [zmx](https://hackerapproved.com/p/zmx.md): 23 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Rmux", https://hackerapproved.com/p/rmux/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).