That's something else. Zellij is a reimplementation in Rust. Tmux is perfectly fine as well but for me personally Zellij is more approachable if I want fix a bug or add a feature.
The other week I wanted to process a few hundred gigabytes of elevation data. My home internet is poor, so I rented a cheap cloud server and installed zellij on it. Zellij let me have two panes so I could monitor wget requests and also watch the overall progress. Zellij also kept the commands running even if I closed my laptop screen and my ssh connection dropped.
I also use zellij locally so I don't have to learn more than one set of keyboard shortcuts and so on. There are plently of alternatives but zellij is just convenient.
I tried this out for my first multiplexer, but I prefer tmux. Zellij is oddly modal, which makes doing things take far more keypresses than they should require.
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I also use zellij locally so I don't have to learn more than one set of keyboard shortcuts and so on. There are plently of alternatives but zellij is just convenient.