why no iTerm2 in the benchmarks ? It far outperforms the likes of kitty and ghostty
Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours
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Re: Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours
#22This is obligatory read: https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/it-takes-a-phd-to-develop-t...
Later, Microsoft fixes the issue but fails to give Muratori credit. After backlash, they went back and gave him a footnote: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-... (atlas release section)
GitHub thread in question: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm...
And this gem: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm...
Re: Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours
#23I prefer Ghostty as there is no this "Claude" thing in its contributors. But I guess it's always good to have competitions.
Re: Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours
#24why no iTerm2 in the benchmarks ? It far outperforms the likes of kitty and ghostty
I'm not imposing my opinion, but in my experience, iterm2 is the slowest terminal emulator I know of, so I didn't even bother trying. But overall, I'll add iterm2 to the list, too.
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#25Best named project I've seen this year!
Re: Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours
#26Gutenberg's copy of Moby Dick is 1.2MB[0]. Which is to say the slowest benchmarked terminal could display a paltry ~53 Moby Dicks per second, while shitty gives you ~98 Moby Dicks.
I am not sure how many Moby Dicks I require per second, but it is good to have options.
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#27Geeking out on terminals is like geeking out on shoelaces. I'm glad you guys are out there - someone has to do it.
Optimize the aglets!
Re: Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours
#28Best named project I've seen this year!
I hoped that at least someone would like it :))
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#29I prefer Ghostty as there is no this "Claude" thing in its contributors. But I guess it's always good to have competitions.
Mitchell is a big proponent of using AI to code. He’s just not a dummy and knows his sh*t and he reviews the code diligently. Hell, he just promoted that he started a company for making tooling for AI agents. There is lots of LLM code in Ghostty it’s just not attributed.
Re: Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours
#30Nice work!
I do wonder, however, whether people really have issues with perf on any terminal emulator in 2026
I’ve been living in Terminal.app / zsh / tmux / vim for 15 years and have never once thought “this is slower than I want.”