Audience

Terminal users interested in cross-platform terminal emulators

About Rio Terminal

Rio is a terminal application that’s built with Rust, WebGPU, Tokio runtime. It targets to have the best frame per second experience as long you want, but is also configurable to use as minimal from GPU.

The terminal renderer is based on redux state machine, lines that has not updated will not suffer a redraw. Looking for the minimal rendering process in most of the time. Rio is also designed to support WebAssembly runtime so in the future you will be able to define how a tab system will work with a WASM plugin written in your favorite language.

Rio uses WGPU, which is an implementation of WebGPU for use outside of a browser and as backend for Firefox’s WebGPU implementation. WebGPU allows for more efficient usage of modern GPU’s than WebGL.

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Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 4.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5
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Rio Terminal
raphamorim.io/rio/

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  • Hugo L.
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    Used the software for: Less than 6 months
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User, Administrator
    Company Size: 500 - 999
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    "Insanely fast and best terminal tabs"

    Edited 2023-08-01

    Pros: I really enjoy the terminal, not only is a minimalist terminal as also have the best tabs of all terms. I honestly don't care about what's going on in other tabs and don't want to be spammed by that. Rio provides a minimal interface besides the fact that is really fast.

    Cons: Still is a quite fresh project so a lot of features are missing like search but it's caching up quite quick.

    Overall: Rio is crazy fast, I was using Kitty for a long time but after gave a chance to Rio decided to stay with it.

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