WezTerm seems to be missing from the list, and is a superset of those listed.
Libghostty is coming
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#183I love how this guy founds + takes public + sells a multibillion company and then just goes right back to hacking. Legend.
Basically MariaDB. He (original creator of MySQL) sold MySQL for a Billion dollars (iirc) forked it, created MariaDB and kept at it. It's been what 15 years now?
Wrong person. You're thinking of Michael “Monty” Widenius, not Mitchell Hashimoto
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hashimoto is an absolute wizard, but what I find most compelling about him is his absolutely uncanny ability to segment and abstract systems and interfaces in a way for maximum composability and minimal entanglement. He's like the walking embodiment of Rich Hickey's Simple Made Easy philosophy. It's like he designs software systems in such a way that they have no choice but to operate correctly and predictably. Also…
I love ghostty. The only thing that is missing is a find feature which is such an odd omissions for an incredible piece of software.
I find the search through a file actually makes sense.
If you don't know, you can send the log to a file, and open that file to look through it. More powerful than just a search next, as you can have instance counts, search with regexp and all the bells and whistles and it virtually stops the logging.
At first I thought the same as you, now I've become quite partial to this concept. I hope they don't remove this.
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
What good is grep if you want to search the build log on your screen that took an hour in the making? Should have thought of tee-ing it, well duh.
You just rawdog that to stdout without a log file?
Of course. Why not? I can use the terminal's search facility to search its infinite scrollback buffer.
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#187The passion and attention to detail Mitchell has for developer experience is beyond me. I remember the first time I used Vagrant (2011, Santa Monica California) like it was yesterday it was that impactful. I never thought in a million years I would even think of ditching iTerm2 but when Ghostty dropped I installed it and fell in love.
What exactly does it do better than iTerm2? I gave it a try a few weeks ago and wasn't at all impressed, but maybe I just don't know what I'm missing.
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there a blog post anywhere that explains why it has taken so long to get search working? Ghostty is such a nice app but that's such a fundamental feature that there has to be a good reason... It's the only thing keeping me on iTerm2.
Does nobody use grep?
"Do you not have phones?"
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#189I'm excited for libghostty. Ghostty has a few design decisions I'm not a fan of, but being able to make my own terminal program or embed a terminal into any app with libghostty is a potential gamechanger.
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#190Newb question: what’s the difference between a terminal and terminal emulator? I’ve never figured that out
The former is a piece of hardware from the 70s, the latter is software that emulates the former.