microsoft/terminal

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Microsoft's open-source Windows Terminal application, a modern tabbed terminal emulator with GPU-accelerated text rendering, plus the original Windows console host (conhost.exe) and shared console components. It hosts shells like cmd, PowerShell, and WSL distributions.

Use cases

• run multiple shell tabs and panes in one terminal on Windows
• use WSL Linux shells inside a native Windows terminal
• customize terminal themes, fonts, and keybindings
• replace the legacy Windows console with a modern terminal emulator
• develop and test command-line tools on Windows

When to choose

• you need a modern, fast terminal on Windows 10 2004 or later
• you want tabs, panes, Unicode, and theming for cmd/PowerShell/WSL
• you want to contribute to or build the Windows console host itself

When to avoid

• you need a terminal for Linux or macOS
• you are on an old Windows version before build 19041
• you need a cross-platform terminal written in a portable stack

Facets

application · maturity active

terminal-ui cli developer-tools developer-tools windows windows cpp windows-terminal console-host wsl shell tabs gpu-accelerated command-line

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