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Ghostty is now non-profit

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Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by notpushkin »

bdcravens wrote: post #76
veverkap wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While you're not wrong, I think this undersells a little how much Mitchell has given of his time to OSS. Yes, he's fortunate that he doesn't have to worry about money, but even when he did, he still contributed openly and freely. That's part of what drew lots of us to HashiCorp in the first place - giving back.

Money begets the freedom to work on causes. Monetization was always a core part of Hashicorp, rather than being a bolt-on after years of OSS. Which is a good thing. (I was a customer of the first commercial offering from Hashicorp, their VMWare add-on for Vagrant)

But when you already have money, you can skip the “how can I work on this and not starve to death?” part.

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by lillecarl »

I really hope Mitchell will continue the work of Kovid Goyal in extending and improving the VT protocols to allow building richer terminal experiences.

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/unscroll/ <- this for example makes such a difference when using multiple splits and some TUI style history search or whatever to unscroll.

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by jtbaker »

misiti3780 wrote: post #53
trueno wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ive found ghostty to be a pretty decent replacement for iterm2, some bugs still being worked out and i havent always had the best luck with the guake dropdown style terminal but all in all it's pretty nice. sort of miss the additional hot-key invoking options iterm2 had (i could double tap control or cmd to invoke) and ghostty is a lil more limited there, but overall its solid, doesn't feel bloated. iterm2's settings…

i agree, you can search in the terminal like you can iterm2 either, which is super annoying.

It’s merged to main but not in any district channels yet AFAIK

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by notpushkin »

bilekas wrote: post #135

After hearing about Bun today, this is such a curveball. Ironic as it is in this 'get big enough to sell' ethos mentality that seems to be prevalent, this is what I would have expected from Bun. 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…

> this is what I would have expected from Bun

Alas, Bun is a VC-backed startup. Having $7m in funding is great, but it does come with some strings attached.

But maybe now Bun founders can start a nonprofit project of their own!

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by coastalpuma »

neop1x wrote: post #106
helterskelter wrote: post #29

Is there a compelling reason to use ghostty on Linux, over say, gnome-terminal or foot?

Or WezTerm which is much more usable and polished than this. I don't think there are any. It is likely just a social media hype.

Wezterm is an excellent project but it doesn't have native UI chrome like Ghostty does.

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by nodesocket »

bombcar wrote: post #170
nodesocket wrote: post #27

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Shockingly I believe billionaire with a B. They timed the acquisition nearly perfect in terms of market conditions. Tres comma club!!!

Loving the idea that he got a bank transfer for $1b and it’s still just sitting there in his checking account.

I would assume it's not sitting in his checking account. He hopefully has wealth advisors; earning interest, investments, tax strategies. Mitchell is super smart, so almost certainly not sitting in a checking account.

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by Geezus_42 »

mindcrash wrote: post #71
veverkap wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While you're not wrong, I think this undersells a little how much Mitchell has given of his time to OSS. Yes, he's fortunate that he doesn't have to worry about money, but even when he did, he still contributed openly and freely. That's part of what drew lots of us to HashiCorp in the first place - giving back.

It's a little tongue-in-cheek, but as you can see elsewhere in this discussion thread he mentions this himself on his own X account: "get asked the same about terminals all the time. “How will you turn this into a business? What’s the monetization strategy?” The monetization strategy is that my bank account has 3 commas mate." https://x.com/mitchellh/status/1964785527741427940 Take a good guess where the three commas…

Tres Commas!

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by [deleted] »

sundarurfriend wrote: post #125
conradev wrote: post #7

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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 )

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Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by PNewling »

xrd wrote: post #66

I'm really excited about Ghostty (and Zig mostly because of my exposure via ghostty). Until ghostty I hadn't really considered that a terminal would be a catalyst for innovation and even startups. But, libghostty is REALLY fascinating. And, all the good AI coding tools, IMHO, operate inside a terminal, and my head is spinning with ideas about hammering on the container for these new CLIs. (UWash CompSci strikes again…

Wow, I actually had no idea what he was a UW grad, let alone that I went there the same time he did... TIL
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