Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours • Hacker News Board

functionmouse wrote: post #9

pg83 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Let the best tool win.

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

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Post by y1n0 » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 12:33 AM UTC

pg83 wrote: post #11

normie3000 wrote: post #7

Why wouldn't you use this?

For example, flicker free resizes for MacOS, something that neither Kitty, nor Alacritti, nor Ghostty can boast of.

I'm not knocking your project, but ghostty doesn't flicker for me on resize. Is this a common problem people have?

My main complaint with ghostty is the crappy configuration.

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

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Post by pg83 » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 12:34 AM UTC

theturtletalks wrote: post #15

Any plans for a "libghostty" alternative for your terminal?

No, there are no such plans right now, but overall, the project's architecture allows for easy separation of different layers for developing a terminal emulator - the parser, in the form of a ragel state machine, and the vterm state machine, with distinct boundaries between them. The rendering layer is separated slightly less clearly, but it's also solvable.

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

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Post by chamomeal » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 12:39 AM UTC

I will def try this out and I absolutely love the name. Just an A++ name

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

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Post by pg83 » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 12:39 AM UTC

y1n0 wrote: post #17

pg83 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For example, flicker free resizes for MacOS, something that neither Kitty, nor Alacritti, nor Ghostty can boast of.

I'm not knocking your project, but ghostty doesn't flicker for me on resize. Is this a common problem people have? My main complaint with ghostty is the crappy configuration.

It's not that it's a serious problem, it's just that for me, as a perfectionist, flicker is very noticeable when resizing.