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Creator of Ghostty here. Always a fan of new terminals. I noticed your benchmarks are against Ghostty 1.3.1, which is fair, since its the latest released, but our IO throughputs in…

No idea

> Good news is that modern compilers are more than capable of emitting SIMD code even if original source is nothing but. They're really not (I have a whole section on it in the blo…

> i've found that zig tends to extend my vectors to the native width of the platform and then operate on them there oh interesting. though i suspect that isn't zig and thats llvm.

> mitchell, i know you hang around some of these comments sometimes hi im here > i noticed that in ghostty you bring in some c++ libs to do the simd heavy lifting for you. any plan…

Case-in-point, the example in my own post doesn't auto-vectorize with LLVM or GCC at highest optimization levels. Basically, compilers will never auto-vectorize loops with an early…

> If you assume Hashimotos net worth is one billion dollars, a $400k donation is equivalent to a $400 donation if your net worth is one million dollars. 1. Net worth is significant…

> How is it out of touch? I donated much more than Hashimoto did relative to our net worths, but I cannot deny that I would have felt much more satisfied making a 1000x impact if I…

I'm the creator of Ghostty. This isn't right. It should idle at 0 to 1%, as supported by sibling comments. If you can collect more details about your system please open a discussio…

probably just been long enough that he doesn't give a shit source: most of the bullshit i surface up nowadays

As with all things, the horror stories just get the most attention. People love to rage. There are plenty of boring (good, even!) VCs out there. They just work more quietly, profes…

Correct. I use AI a ton and I'm having more fun every day than I ever did before thanks to it (on average, highs are higher, lows are lower). Your characterization is all very accu…

Yep! To be more specific, Open Source only promises the four fundamental freedoms ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition ). It promises literally NOTHING else…

I know this is ridiculously dramatic, but its the truth: I actually cried writing this blog post (tears hit my keyboard, I'm embarrassed to say). Nobody should cry over a SaaS, of …

Of most things, really, he was on Jeopardy for a reason! https://thejeopardyfan.com/tag/ted-nyman

Cmd+F "Kubernetes". Oh Jesus Christ.

Well, I originally used C23's #embed directive ( https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/preprocessor/embed ) but GCC in Nixpkgs doesn't support C23 (or I'm holding it wrong) so I dropped …

Just noting that Ghostty shows a preview in the bottom corners just like a browser.

Im touched that “Ghostty but for X” is a marketing point but what does it mean in this case? I thought this might be based on the architecture I did for Ghostty. But it’s not. Or i…

I'm not concerned with it. The real goal isn't for Alacrity or Kitty or WezTerm or any other terminal to use libghostty. I think over the long term, terminal emulator user bases dw…

Probably not. I don't know. Who cares.

Not at all. Give it tools and skills and it figures it out very quickly. Must be an agent. Don't use chat.

Yes, LLMs with Zig are absolutely useless without agentic behaviors. Throw an agent in the mix and it's totally fine. Bonus points if you pair it with some basic agent skills so it…

New stable release in 1 to 2 weeks.

It's been extremely good. I should really blog about it in more detail because I do get asked this question regularly. It's been very good. The large language changes are a burden,…