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Is there a compelling reason to use ghostty on Linux, over say, gnome-terminal or foot?
But I'm using KDE anywa, and I don't care about kitty graphic protocol, I have better suited apps to watch images.
> I believe infrastructure of this kind should be stewarded by a mission-driven, non-commercial entity that prioritizes public benefit over private profit. One of my pet peeves is people trotting out “I believe” statements. (Usually) I care much more about the evidence that backs the belief than the belief. Putting aside my cantankerousness, I am glad Michael believes in setting up good incentives for the organizatio…
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I don’t appreciate your sarcastic and snarky final penultimate sentence. If you reread my comment, you probably can see that I would agree there is no one perfect legal entity.
> Why do you assume Mitchell is just doing this without any research or reasoning?
I said nothing of the kind.
> Your laundry list of everything that might possibly go wrong with an open software project is not exactly useful.
I didn’t make any such laundry list (or even a list).
Saying “… that only you can see. Enjoy!” at the end of this is more than unkind; it is a jerk move.
Taken as a whole, the comment above isn’t just uncharitable; it mischaracterizes my comment completely and consistently.
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.
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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.…
> The students have one big global Slack instance. Are you back on Slack as the primary comms channel after their sudden attempt to upcharge you (followed by the U-turn after the PR backlash)? Do you have some mirroring and other kind of fallback strategy if something like that happens again? (Context for those who missed it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283887 )
I like Ghostty, don't get a chance to use it enough but everyone I know loves it, this is so cool to hear.
> Being non-profit clearly demonstrates our commitment to keeping Ghostty free and open source for everyone
I do hope the creators and maintainers get something good though. Open source work seems majority ignored to me at least, and admittedly by me too most of the time.
Really nice to see a solidly valuable project develop a sustainable foundation instead of turning into yet another VC-backed devtools startup that will inevitably die in a few years.
Even still, whatever high salaries they do give us just flow right back into the neighborhoods through insane property values and other cost-of-living expenses that negate any gains. So, it’s always just the few of us who can win that lottery and truly break out of the cycle.
I have yet to see a way that this software is better than leading terminal emulators like Alacritty and WezTerm. Alacritty is simple and blazing fast, WezTerm has a Lua API and is as complicated as you want it to be. All of the fuss seems to be entirely driven by Mitchell's clout, and maybe some interest in Zig. Given that's the real reason everyone is talking about Ghostty (which I'm happy to be wrong about, let me…
Donating in Chrome didn't work, only in Safari. FullStory namespace conflict. Please set window["_fs_namespace"]. script.pageview-props.tagged-events.js:1 Failed to load resource: net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENTUnderstand this error edge.fullstory.com/s/fs.js:1 Failed to load resource: net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENTUnderstand this error ghostty:1 Access to XMLHttpRequest at ' https://d3hb14vkzrxvla.cloudfront.net/v1/e3d6bbe1-…
Sorry about that! I've just pushed a fix for one of those errors. Although I wasn't able to reproduce this donation behavior on Chrome, I will continue investigating.
I appreciate you reporting this!
Is there a compelling reason to use ghostty on Linux, over say, gnome-terminal or foot?
- It uses plain text configuration that is easy to modify and version control.
Edit: - At least on Linux, foot's support for windows and tabs is limited to starting an entirely new process.