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Re: Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours

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> The executable is named st; the desktop application and icon are named shitty

That conflicts with the already existing suckless st.

Also I am suitably impressed with the perf numbers, but I also somewhat take away that I could stick with (at least) alacritty or ghostty and not be much slower.

Re: Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours

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Unironically better name than “CRM“ for a CRM https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49142360 With this you can DuckDuckKagi for the crappy terminal (versus “CRM crm”… ah guess they wanted you to remember their company name)

Except others are already using it, with proper capitalization.

https://github.com/fearlessgeekmedia/shiTTY

This one just tried to reserve the name with an empty repo a year ago... probably where the LLM got the name.

https://github.com/immz4/shitty

Re: Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours

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> The executable is named st; the desktop application and icon are named shitty That conflicts with the already existing suckless st. Also I am suitably impressed with the perf numbers, but I also somewhat take away that I could stick with (at least) alacritty or ghostty and not be much slower.

I know, but there aren't that many two-letter abbreviations!

Re: Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours

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post #8

> The executable is named st; the desktop application and icon are named shitty That conflicts with the already existing suckless st. Also I am suitably impressed with the perf numbers, but I also somewhat take away that I could stick with (at least) alacritty or ghostty and not be much slower.

I know, but there aren't that many two-letter abbreviations!

on one hand I wanna say you shouldn't make conflicting names

on the other hand what gives them the right to st but not you?

Re: Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours

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Why wouldn't you use this?

Personally, I have never felt constrained by the performance of my terminal, so I pick based on other features.

(I have, also, thought about building my own perf-optimized terminal. It's a fun problem space!)

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