Open source alternatives to mosh

One project on starwire does the same job. Ranked by how much of what mosh does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.

What mosh does

Remote shell that survives roaming and sleepcore
Responsive typing on slow linkscore
Reconnect without restarting the session
Works over SSH login
UDP transport

Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this

Project	Covers	Stars	Commits, 12 weeks	Last release	Closed vs opened	Setup	License
mosh-rsRust rewrite of mosh with a native Windows client and scrollback	Replaces it93%	34+1	193	9 days ago	Too few	Uses the terminal	GPL-3.0
Covers all 2 core jobs. Partly: Works over SSH login.See the evidence Remote shell that survives roaming and sleepcoreYesa switch from Wi-Fi to cellular, a laptop that sleeps overnight Responsive typing on slow linkscoreYesechoes your keystrokes locally before the server answers Reconnect without restarting the sessionYeskeeps a session alive through things that drop an ssh connection Works over SSH loginPartlyworks with the `mosh-server` already installed on your hosts UDP transportYesIt runs over UDP

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