Investigate other terminal emulators (Rust? Scala Native?)

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I don't know the feasibility of this, but looking into alternative terminal emulators might be nice. The Swing one I created seems to work fine and all, but I imagine native ones will be snappier.

I haven't looked into all these yet (hoping somebody is interested), but a few candidates:

• Alacritty
• Kitty
• wezterm
• Gnome VTE

Alacritty in particular looks neat, but I don't know if it can be hosted in its own window programmatically yet. If you're interested in Rust it might be a fun project.

If there's a plain C emulator I missed, giving Scala Native a shot with it is another idea.

With headless mode now supported (#149), this issue should be more doable. The idea would be to run Command Center in headless mode, and then connect up to it with the native front-end (written in Rust or whatever).

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Seems like this should be doable now with Alacritty since this issue is resolved?
alacritty/alacritty#450

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There's also Kitty: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty

As for Alacritty, there are these issues to watch:
alacritty/alacritty#1101
rust-windowing/winit#1497

It's a bit of a blocker for me, but it's probably fine for most users who don't need CJK input and so on.