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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by mitchellh » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 11:20 PM UTC

therealfiona wrote: post #148

mitchellh wrote: post #48

Ghostty got a lot of hype (I cover this in my reflection below), but I want to make sure I call out that there is a good group of EXCELLENT terminals out there, and I'm not claiming Ghostty is strictly better than any of them. Ghostty has different design goals and tradeoffs and if it's right for you great, but if not, you have so many good choices. Shout out to Kitty, WezTerm, Foot in particular. iTerm2 gets some ha…

Looks cool man. Does it have a way to do tabs, and split terminal vertical and horizontal? Those are the only features keeping me on Terminator. I've tried Tmux, but it isn't the same, so please commenters, avoid from the suggestion.

Yes we have both as native UI elements.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by metaltyphoon » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 11:22 PM UTC

Why is the CLI args so weird with the + sign?

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by chipsrafferty » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 11:23 PM UTC

puttycat wrote: post #139

What am I missing? Can someone please explain what reason there is to switch/build a new terminal when we can use e.g. iTerm ?

Yeah or vscode integrated bash?

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by slantedview » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 11:23 PM UTC

Congrats on the release! I'm excited to try this out.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by jitl » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 11:24 PM UTC

howon92 wrote: post #116

To people who tried using it, what are the reasons to use it over iTerm2?

It’s fast. In the same league as Alacritty and Wezterm, which is to say on the doom fire benchmark those terminals can do 500fps plus, where iTerm2 does 90fps on my M4 MacBook Pro. In practical terms if you use tmux or vim in the terminal, it makes a big difference for typing latency and scrolling.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by nathansherburn » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 11:26 PM UTC

puttycat wrote: post #139

What am I missing? Can someone please explain what reason there is to switch/build a new terminal when we can use e.g. iTerm ?

I'm still using the built in MacOS terminal. What am I missing? I mostly do webdev - maybe terminal features are more important for other types of programming?

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 11:26 PM UTC

SG- wrote: post #11

kristopolous wrote: post #9

I assume this is mostly a mac thing? The effort to get this up and running on debian appears to be a bit more work than normal.

it's a Mac and Linux thing.

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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by 999900000999 » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 11:28 PM UTC

guerrilla wrote: post #143

dsp_person wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AUR not even needed https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/ghostty/

How... did that get in there so fast? I just updated a couple of hours ago and it wasn't there. Now it is.

I'm assuming it's been out for a while, but out of respect package maintainers waited to release it.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by BoingBoomTschak » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 11:28 PM UTC

fishgoesblub wrote: post #22

I initially scoffed when I read "platform-native UI" as I've found programs made in Electron typically proclaim something similar when they are anything but native, so when I saw it used GTK for Linux (SwiftUI for MacOS) my interests were piqued. Always fun to mess around with new terminal emulators. edit: alas, it doesn't support bitmap fonts..

Thanks for this post, first thing I did was search "bitmap" in the thread. If I can't use Terminus (+Unifont fallback), it's not for me.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by wonger_ » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 11:31 PM UTC

nickorlow wrote: post #144

Any Alacritry users have opinions on this? I've been waiting for its release and am looking forward to trying it. Wonder what the big differences are? I mostly appreciate Alacritty's simplicity and use tmux to manage multiple windows/panes.

In my experience, Alacritty had a few bugs / unimplemented features that broke certain TUIs. Ghostty seems to be the most complete / least broken terminal emulator.