Little Stable Version
Hey, it's a bit of a general plea rather than a specific bug report. Thanks to the author, to all the contributors and enthusiasts.
I'm a kind of user who tries to keep it simple, e.g. I use bash (tried zsh and got back), I use spacemacs (from Vim, from emacs), an OS-bundled browser (Safari over Chrome) and I hate to configure anything unless absolutely necessary. I also try not to push my machine to the max (using remote machines instead) or to do anything particularly freaky.
I have been very satisfied with iTerm from the UX POV, as a replacement for the (however improving) Terminal app. However, over the last year, roughly, I have enjoyed 0 (zero) new features and suffered multiple issues with the regular app operation:
- memory hogging
- CPU hogging
- freezes and crashes
- defective session restoration/recovery (this has been running for several months, until I've reset my installation)
- shared preferences malfunction (I have several users on my machine for different companies I work for, I believe it worked at some point, but then, no more)
- weird system issues (have you ever seen
su
askingsu: who are you?
? Well I have, with iTerm) - session restoration failures (this has just been the last drop)
I've gone from development updates to the "stable" version updates, it didn't help much in overall. I've even tried to get back to the Terminal app when it was too much, but something (I don't remember exactly what) was still missing in its feature set.
Now I wonder if it's possible to create a really stable slow-moving version branch -- for people that don't need that many new features and depend on iTerm for everyday work.