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Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by n42 »

yomismoaqui wrote: post #160

The fetishization of tools is one of the things that mark a dilettante mindset. You see it on all hobbies, e.g. when the someone sees a photograph and their first question is about what camera and optics were used. No question about composition, light, the moment, creativity... they only care for the tools. The technique and knowledge is the important thing, not the tools. They forget the good practitioner can do a g…

I have no idea why I am responding to someone who flippantly uses a phrase like "dilittante mindset", but here we go

there is definitely a tendency for noobs and amateurs in any hobby or industry to obsess over expensive gear and things that don't matter (I love the term "buyhard" for it). you're out of your mind if you think the professionals in literally any industry do not discuss the specific technical tradeoffs of tools they are using among themselves.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by mkoubaa »

n42 wrote: post #191
yomismoaqui wrote: post #160

The fetishization of tools is one of the things that mark a dilettante mindset. You see it on all hobbies, e.g. when the someone sees a photograph and their first question is about what camera and optics were used. No question about composition, light, the moment, creativity... they only care for the tools. The technique and knowledge is the important thing, not the tools. They forget the good practitioner can do a g…

I have no idea why I am responding to someone who flippantly uses a phrase like "dilittante mindset", but here we go there is definitely a tendency for noobs and amateurs in any hobby or industry to obsess over expensive gear and things that don't matter (I love the term "buyhard" for it). you're out of your mind if you think the professionals in literally any industry do not discuss the specific technical tradeoffs…

They don't discuss tradeoffs of every tool, just the ones that offer the most leverage

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by 0sdi »

kazinator wrote: post #158
0sdi wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

on my machine, noticeable. I seriously tried it, but went back because I could notice a small end-end latency, between keypress and action. But I'm also 240hz user.

Where are you measuring the keypress from? The nerve signal to your finger muscles?> Or the time the keycap hits bottom? What if the switch closes before the cap hits bottom: then we are getting a latency figure that looks better than it really is.

Nerve signals yes. I just try them side by side, usually running vim on both terminals and measuring how it feels. If you can feel difference, the latency is bad.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by cwel »

Ghostty is awesome, ill echo the sentiment regarding lack of IPC/scripting API being my current hold back. Sticking with kitty til then. I still keep the ghostty binary on hand so I can +boo :^)

for libghostty consumers, favorite i've tried so far is neurosnap/zmx.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by rvz »

thewebguyd wrote: post #110
pkulak wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, really? So I’ve used the terminal for everything for decades, and now, because of vibe coding, all The Kids have joined me? I don’t even know how to feel about that. Better terminals are nice though.

Right? It’s been kind of funny watching everyone “rediscover” the terminal and I’m over here feeling like a true graybeard “silly kids, I’ve been here the whole time.” What’s old is new again is apparently just as true in tech as it is in fashion.

It's because the web developers who destroyed the web are now taking their mess with them into more obscure places, such as terminals, hardware and AI.

That's probably why it is so hyped up as it is right now.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by dang »

These look like the major past threads (in reverse order) - have I missed any?

AI Usage Policy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46730504 - Jan 2026 (273 comments)

Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46568794 - Jan 2026 (138 comments)

Why users cannot create Issues directly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46460319 - Jan 2026 (310 comments)

Ghostty is now non-profit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138238 - Dec 2025 (289 comments)

Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110842 - Dec 2025 (115 comments)

Vibing a non-trivial Ghostty feature - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45549434 - Oct 2025 (147 comments)

Ghostty 1.2.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252026 - Sept 2025 (26 comments)

AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44976568 - Aug 2025 (464 comments)

We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44905808 - Aug 2025 (224 comments)

Release Notes for Ghostty 1.1.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42884930 - Jan 2025 (79 comments)

Déjà vu: Ghostly CVEs in my terminal title - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42562743 - Dec 2024 (55 comments)

Ghostty: Reflecting on Reaching 1.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42527355 - Dec 2024 (7 comments)

Ghostty 1.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42517447 - Dec 2024 (681 comments)

Ghostty 1.0 Is Coming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41914025 - Oct 2024 (32 comments)

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by rkrzr »

seertaak wrote: post #138
mitchellh wrote: post #33

I'm the original creator of Ghostty. It's been a few years now! I don't know why this is on the front page of HN again but let me give some meaningful updates across the board. First, libghostty is _way more exciting_ nowadays. It is already backing more than a dozen terminal projects that are free and commercial: https://github.com/Uzaaft/awesome-libghostty I think this is the real future of Ghostty and I've said th…

Congrats on creating and helming such a cool project! Out of curiosity, does ghostty do the Quake terminal thing - I use yakuake for this, but it feels a bit long in the tooth.

It does. See https://ghostty.org/docs/config/keybind/reference#toggle_qui...

This works on MacOS, and on Linux sometimes:

> On Linux, the quick terminal is only supported on Wayland and not X11, and only on Wayland compositors that support the wlr-layer-shell-v1 protocol. In practice, this means that only GNOME users would not be able to use this feature.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by dmix »

signorovitch wrote: post #120

My only issue with ghostty is it isn’t immediately recognized by some programs through ssh (eg less) and they don’t operate properly. However there’s a one liner that solves the problem permanently on the remote machine[0] so it isn’t too bad. Hopefully in the near future ghostty’s terminfo will be shipped with common linux distros. [0] https://ghostty.org/docs/help/terminfo

I haven't used ghostty but terminal having issues with ssh sounds like a major oversight.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by nicoritschel »

makeramen wrote: post #179
linsomniac wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

mitchellh: What is the current thinking WRT adding client/server functionality (like built-in tmux+mosh)? I recall you talking about it on the Changelog podcast, and that would be a killer feature for me; I really make a lot of use of the wezterm equivalent, it's so nice having first-class UI windows rather than tmux's faking of it.

Zellij has been holding me over with tabs and panes (in quick terminal) while I wait for them to come to ghostty directly. Tabs (and panes? I haven't tried yet) should work fine for regular terminal windows though.

Did a double take on this one since my Ghostty has had panes for a while now (I run tip/nightly). Didn't realize it's not part of the current release.

Also, Zellij is nice.

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