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Going by the childish naming of the project, it doesn't inspire confidence in the professionalism of the author going forward, and neither will it help with getting it installed on corporate networks. I'm all for vulgar wit but this isn't that (yes I'm aware of the -tty convention) & just reinforces the cliche of tech skills inversely proportional to social ones
Going by the childish naming of the project, it doesn't inspire confidence in the professionalism of the author going forward, and neither will it help with getting it installed on corporate networks. I'm all for vulgar wit but this isn't that (yes I'm aware of the -tty convention) & just reinforces the cliche of tech skills inversely proportional to social ones
I don't know if it'd be faster than your terminal or not, but it'd be significantly faster than 1.3.1. On my M4 MacBook Pro, ASCII processing improved by about 2.8x, if that holds in your benchmarks, it would be faster than shitty. But, who knows. I'd prefer you ran it yourself.
Geeking out on terminals is like geeking out on shoelaces. I'm glad you guys are out there - someone has to do it.
You’ll be delighted to learn Professor Shoelace exists: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/
Good for you Ian, happy guy.
I gotta say though: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/knots.htm
Most of these look like dogshit.
Feel like I would be tripping over my own feet lookin like a shipwreck.
This one is bullshit, he's padding content: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/startknot.htm That's not a knot. Not a knot.
That's the beginning of tying your shoes.
Come on Professor!
I will def try this out and I absolutely love the name. Just an A++ name
Can you explain why you think so? Seems like a very childish name to me. Like a neighborhood kid outside on his bike yelling “shit” then pedaling away as fast as he can, to dissociate himself from the event out of fear of getting caught. FaTTY - Fast Terminal (executable named “ft”) RaTTY - Rapid Terminal (“rt”) LighTTY - Lightspeed Terminal (“lt”) Dragster (“dt”) McQueen (“mt”) Names are hard, but it’s trivial to co…
> 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!
> Shitty is moving from the imported GPL baseline to an MIT-only codebase. It does not intend to retain the GPL as the final project license. that's really something that cannot be done if you don't have the original right of the code. It's 100% derived work and thus has to preserve GPL license, even if you rewrite every single line.
I'll probably stick to the perspective expressed to me by the lawyer (I actually consulted on this topic), rather than the opinion of some random "GPL zealot" on the internet. The procedure described has been done many times, is well described, and is quite feasible, albeit quite complex. I think I can handle it! And, in any case, anyone who wants to can sue me in a real court, not an online one.
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You’ll be delighted to learn Professor Shoelace exists: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/
Those skeuomorphic eyelets are top notch. Good for you Ian, happy guy. I gotta say though: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/knots.htm Most of these look like dogshit. Feel like I would be tripping over my own feet lookin like a shipwreck. This one is bullshit, he's padding content: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/startknot.htm That's not a knot. Not a knot. That's the beginning of tying your shoes. Come on Professor…
Nice 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.”
To me, the most relevant aspect is the time it takes to open. I can't believe how slow the startup time in common linux distributions is by default, it's so annoying, by the time it opens I already forgot what I wanted to do. Alacritty has this cool feature where you only ever have to "open" a single terminal, whereas new windows can be created very efficiently with `alacritty msg create-window`, being forks of the i…
xfce4-terminal starts utterly instantly without single instance feature.
Kitty has the single instance feature and starts instantly with it.
Two mild criticisms: 1. Don't call your project "shitty". At best it's juvenile humor. At worst, it's going to make adoption within companies difficult for literally no reason; and 2. You don't need a two letter command. I'm sorry but you're not that special. Your tool should instead denote its purpose with its name. In this case something like "sterm" or "stty" would do that perfectly without being verbose.