--- title: The Rise of Terminal Tools | daily.dev description: Terminal tools have experienced a renaissance driven by multiple converging trends. Rust-based CLI tools like ripgrep demonstrated 10-100x performance... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/dejvonmxg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Rise of Terminal Tools | daily.dev og:description: Terminal tools have experienced a renaissance driven by multiple converging trends. Rust-based CLI tools like ripgrep demonstrated 10-100x performance... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/dejvonmxg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/DEJVonMxG.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Rise of Terminal Tools **[Duy NG](https://daily.dev/sources/16n4qqxn6glbzsfoiqbfr)** · [@tduyng](https://daily.dev/tduyng) · 232 upvotes · 12 comments ## Summary Terminal tools have experienced a renaissance driven by multiple converging trends. Rust-based CLI tools like ripgrep demonstrated 10-100x performance improvements over traditional Unix utilities, sparking a wave of modern replacements (bat, fd, zoxide). GPU-accelerated terminal emulators (Kitty, Alacritty, Warp) made terminals visually competitive with GUI apps. AI coding assistants shifted to CLI-first approaches because terminal tools work consistently across all environments—local, remote, containers, and cloud VMs. Neovim modernized with built-in LSP, Lua configuration, and easy-to-use distributions like LazyVim, eliminating its traditional learning curve. These trends created a compelling case for terminal-native workflows: portability, speed, low resource usage, and AI-agent compatibility. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@sunyfilip** · 25 upvotes > I still can't understand comments like:,,You don't want to spend whole week to configure you IDE" or ,,You don't want to crash your IDE every week after update your plugins"...And I am always like ,,WHAT? 🤦‍♂️" > > I don't know, but I like to have control about all stuff in my pc, I like to have everything nice and cozy to feel comfortable while programming. And of course it is kinda my passion to rice environment by myself. 🍙 > > It is more about not finding right shortcut to do anything, it is more about do that without thinking HOW to do that = It doesn't matter which IDE you use, it only... **@chrisanatalio** · 3 upvotes > Also TUI(Terminal User Interface) apps built with frameworks like [https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea](https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea) or [https://ratatui.rs/](https://ratatui.rs/) **@judevector** · 1 upvotes > What a wonderful piece, I enjoyed it and learnt a lot from the article **@0\_vortex** · 1 upvotes > who the hell is using stackoverflow anymore for the polls to matter? > > also vsc is editor not ide, ofc terminals win. **@khauma** · 0 upvotes > Fantastic article! ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#cli](https://daily.dev/tags/cli), [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/dejvonmxg) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/dejvonmxg","headline":"The Rise of Terminal Tools","text":"Shared: The Rise of Terminal Tools","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/dejvonmxg","datePublished":"2026-02-16T10:27:12.985Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T06:15:56.151Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Duy NG","url":"https://daily.dev/tduyng","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--xIWAx9aG--/f_auto/v1714769772/avatars/avatar_16N4qQxN6GlbZsfoiQbfR","description":"Never stop exploring!","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":7640}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--P4t4XyoV--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2001","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":232},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":12}],"sharedContent":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/CFs5mIDSV"},"comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"I still can’t understand comments like:,You don’t want to spend whole week to configure you IDE" or ,You don’t want to crash your IDE every week after update your plugins"…And I am always like ,WHAT? 🤦‍♂️"\nI don’t know, but I like to have control about all stuff in my pc, I like to have everything nice and cozy to feel comfortable while programming. And of course it is kinda my passion to rice environment by myself. 🍙\nIt is more about not finding right shortcut to do anything, it is more about do that without thinking HOW to do that = It doesn’t matter which IDE you use, it only matters how comfortable YOU specifically are with it. 😉\nAnd of course if you have good setup of your nvim config, you don’t experience crashes except of breaking changes (visible in changelogs 😅 ). 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