# WezTerm 59 Hacker News commenters recommended WezTerm and 14 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 11 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 2 years (3 owners). It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** People recommend WezTerm as a fast, consistent cross-platform terminal that is configured and scripted in Lua. The most common caveat is font rendering problems. ## Why people recommend it - Same setup on every platform (5 comments): "It is the only cross platform terminal emulator that truly provides an identical experience for me between Mac and Linux." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276069)) "I can fire up a Linux terminal with WezTerm and WSL2 at any point. It's customized and beautiful and totally fine." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503905)) "I like being able to share one configuration my company Windows and my personal Linux laptops" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50262762)) - Lua config you can script (7 comments): "the biggest win was taking Wezterm and having claude build Lua scripts for the features I'm missing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49169037)) "Wezterm works perfectly, and I appreciate the .lua configuration over iTerm2's mess of menus." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47207173)) "being able to version control the settings is one of the biggest benefits" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266188)) - Fast and reliable in daily use (7 comments): "Without fanfare, without constantly blogging non stop about itself, and especially, without memory leaks." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571144)) "I use WezTerm most often because it is fastest to give me a window when I hit the assigned shortcut key." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45807995)) "they were near-frictionless to set up and they don't break on a random Tuesday" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46799392)) - Built-in tabs, panes and sessions (4 comments): "I currently use WezTerm for exactly the feature tty7 advertises about session support." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266267)) "it's so nice having first-class UI windows rather than tmux's faking of it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47209528)) "scriptable enough (lua) that you can session management" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755090)) ## What people warn about - Font rendering problems (3 comments): "I had some issues with Wezterm fonts - I was able to configure it away" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45807569)) "wezterm, which is pretty great, but renders fonts too thin by default" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45803422)) "I couldn't get wezterm to recognize fonts on ALpine no matter what I did" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208712)) - Slow or constant redrawing (2 comments): "Wezterm is great but I found it noticeably slow in some (dumb) instances" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46143013)) "I can't copy/paste in wezterm using the keyboard/vim keys because it is constantly drawing the screen" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48823155)) - Weak accessibility support (2 comments): "Today, I use Wezterm, which VoiceOver doesn't read at all." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895473)) "most GPU-rendered terminal emulators don't engage in system-provided accessibility APIs AT ALL" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48003393)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Ghostty](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ghostty.md): 401 recommend - [Termux](https://hackerapproved.com/p/termux.md): 188 recommend - [iTerm2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/iterm2.md): 95 recommend - [Warp terminal](https://hackerapproved.com/p/warp-terminal.md): 84 recommend - [Kitty terminal emulator](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kitty.md): 79 recommend ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "WezTerm", https://hackerapproved.com/p/wezterm/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).