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+# softty
+
+A minimal, fast Wayland terminal emulator written in Rust.
+
+## Features
+
+- Native Wayland client, no X11 or XWayland
+- Fast startup (10-15ms) and low memory usage
+- Software rendering with shared-memory buffers, no GPU or OpenGL required
+- Unicode-aware, including correct width for wide characters
+- Full keyboard layout support through xkbcommon
+- Configurable through a TOML config file
+
+## Benchmark
+
+Startup time and memory usage, compared against [foot](https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot):
+
+```
+Benchmark 1: foot true (40 runs)
+                   mean ±     σ    min …   max
+  Wall Time [ms]   79.0 ±   7.0   74.3 … 108.6
+  Memory [MiB]     31.6 ±   0.1   31.4 …  31.8
+
+Benchmark 2: softty -e true (183 runs)
+                   mean ±     σ    min …   max
+  Wall Time [ms]   13.1 ±   1.1   11.9 …  17.1   -83.4%  (6.0x faster)
+  Memory [MiB]      9.3 ±   0.1    9.0 …   9.4   -70.7%  (3.4x less)
+```
+
+## Building
+
+Requires Rust 1.70 or newer.
+
+```sh
+git clone https://github.com/socatlolmeow/softty
+cd softty
+cargo build --release
+```
+
+The binary ends up in `target/release/softty`.
+
+## Usage
+
+```sh
+softty
+softty -e <command>
+```
+
+## Contributing
+
+See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).
+
+## License
+
+[GPL-3.0](LICENSE)