foot for macOS
Terminal
The fast, minimal foot terminal, ported natively to macOS with AppKit, CoreText and Core Animation. No Wayland, no X11, no emulation. An idle window sits at about 30 MB.
brew install --cask gobijan/tap/foot| foot | kitty | Ghostty | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Startup ms | 75 | 683 | 155 |
| Idle memory MiB | 31 | 86 | 62 |
| Idle CPU % | 0.04 | 0.29 | 0.65 |
| Idle wakeups per s | 0.3 | 2.3 | 16.2 |
Ghostty is still the fastest at raw output.
Unofficial port, not affiliated with upstream foot.