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Ghostty is now non-profit

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Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by sramsay »

helterskelter wrote: post #29

Is there a compelling reason to use ghostty on Linux, over say, gnome-terminal or foot?

There might be. And I certainly bear no ill will of any kind toward the project or its devs. But I am in terminals all day long, and I hesitate to use one that is written in a language that hasn't yet hit 1.0.

Foot is way more my speed. Fast, extremely stable, and (most importantly) barely noticed. When it comes to terminals, the slightest flicker -- the merest bug -- and I'm gone. And that happened to me with both ghostty and alacritty.

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by dmit »

simonw wrote: post #25
srameshc wrote: post #22

I never realize Ghostty is a project by Mitchell Hashimoto. I am very happy with tmux and never seriously looked at it , now I really curious what is it about and how it is different than say tmux ?

It's not an alternative to tmux, it's an alternative to the macOS Terminal.app or iTerm2. You can run tmux inside Ghostty.

To be fair, you can also run tmux inside tmux (inside Zellij, inside another tmux, inside screen, etc). :)

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Post by torben-friis »

conradev wrote: post #7
simonw wrote: post #2

I wasn't aware of Hack Club before and wow, their fiscal sponsorship program is enormous: https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship/directory/ - looks like they cover more than 2,500 organizations! The Python Software Foundation acts as a fiscal sponsor for a much smaller set of orgs (20 listed on https://www.python.org/psf/fiscal-sponsorees/ ) and it keeps our accounting team pretty busy just looking after those. Hack…

Hack Club builds software, so the students naturally built a banking product to scale their fiscal sponsorship: https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship/ I was working with Hack Club students on an experimental VPN client ( https://github.com/hackclub/burrow ) but never got the momentum to finish it. Made some great friends, though! It's a really fantastic organization. The students have one big global Slack instance.…

This community sounds amazing, is there anything similar for adults rather than teens?

The “understanding through building” mentality is something I never got to experience as a group, the obvious answer is open source and the like but I wonder if there’s something more learning oriented.

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Post by rpastuszak »

VerifiedReports wrote: post #30

Cool. I hadn't heard of it before. What advantages does it offer over the Mac's Terminal, for example?

For me:

- easy to customise using a simple, easy to understand config

- supports non-native full screen so I don’t need to wait for the virtual desktop transition animation on Mac to finish…

- has a friendly community

- it’s a good model for building sustainable products/tools

and, with all of the above: it doesn’t feel like a compromise

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Post by mindcrash »

helterskelter wrote: post #29

Is there a compelling reason to use ghostty on Linux, over say, gnome-terminal or foot?

While foot focuses on minimalism, Ghostty brings along a shit ton of features like support for Kitty's (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/) graphics protocol (in terminal images! - https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/), advanced window management (windows, tabs, splits) and OpenGL pixelshaders (https://catskull.net/fun-with-ghostty-shaders.html)

Given features it's more comparable to Kitty than foot IMO.

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Post by mellowyeller »

torben-friis wrote: post #43
conradev wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hack Club builds software, so the students naturally built a banking product to scale their fiscal sponsorship: https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship/ I was working with Hack Club students on an experimental VPN client ( https://github.com/hackclub/burrow ) but never got the momentum to finish it. Made some great friends, though! It's a really fantastic organization. The students have one big global Slack instance.…

This community sounds amazing, is there anything similar for adults rather than teens? The “understanding through building” mentality is something I never got to experience as a group, the obvious answer is open source and the like but I wonder if there’s something more learning oriented.

Seconding this. I pivoted to tech in my early 30s and feel I've missed out on a lot of community building opportunities.

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by Xiol »

focom wrote: post #32
VerifiedReports wrote: post #30

Cool. I hadn't heard of it before. What advantages does it offer over the Mac's Terminal, for example?

One personal gripe: Compared to the default terminal, ghostty, close the terminal on ctrl+d.

People use something other than CTRL-D to exit their terminal?
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