Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Ghostty 1.0

ghostty.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

221–230 of 719 posts

Re: Ghostty 1.0

#223

Post by YorickPeterse »

c2xlZXB5Cg1 wrote: post #107

Startup time was very bad until I disabled adwaita with gtk-adwaita = false

This sounds like an issue with your environment. For example, on my Fedora 41 setup Ghostty starts up pretty much instantly regardless of the value of this option.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

#224

Post by docandrew »

hysan wrote: post #203

I might give this a shot but using GTK4 makes me think this won’t live up to the “native” claim on Linux. It will likely feel out of place on non-GTK DEs with KDE being the big one. And yes, I did read the about page disclaimer about Linux but strongly disagree about calling GTK4 the closest thing. That’s a very GNOME-centric view (e.g., ignores the rest of the Linux ecosystem) and makes me worry that any issues on o…

FWIW I just tried on KDE (built from source on NixOS) and had some weird cursor dpi issues and GDK errors. Looks like it is tailored more for GTK-based DEs for now.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

#225

Post by PcChip »

Fnoord wrote: post #106
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…

Alacritty on macOS and Linux user here (Windows Terminal on Windows due to easily different shells available, formerly used iTerm2 on macOS). I make up for lack of tabs with zellij locally (tmux remotely). Also allows me to relog or close/update Alacritty. I will give Ghostty a whirl but why no shout out to Alacritty? Which features am I missing out on?

I’m trying to figure out the same thing, sounds like just tabs?

Re: Ghostty 1.0

#226

Post by poincaredisk »

leetrout wrote: post #5

I'm very excited to have this because it's the first bit of high quality open source software to hit the streets in a while. I like where we're headed with tools like this and Ladybird[0] for hope of a subscriptionless future. Thank you, Mitchell! [0] https://ladybird.org/

>first bit of high quality open source software

That feels like an exaggregation. L High quality open source software is uploaded daily to GitHub.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

#227

Post by naikrovek »

RainyDayTmrw wrote: post #211

As someone who uses the default terminal app, I'm curious to learn about other people's use-cases where the choice of terminal app makes a difference and how.

I am not sure how to answer this.

Why choose a non-default anything? It feels like deeper down, you’re asking why anyone chooses anything.

These terminal emulators all behave slightly differently and have different strengths and weaknesses. Some are configurable. Some are programmable. Some feel “right”. Others can be made to feel “right”. Etc.

Why use any non-default application? Same answer for terminal emulators.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

#228

Post by herpdyderp »

dcre wrote: post #194
nathansherburn wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Built-in terminal doesn’t support truecolor. Many CLI programs rely on that to look good.

What CLI programs? I have yet to run into any issues after using the built in terminal for its entire lifespan.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

#229

Post by herpdyderp »

jitl wrote: post #161
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 was using iTerm up until about a week ago when I unboxed a new Mac and decided to test out alternatives while setting it up. Ghostty wasn't out yet so I started with Wezterm, and was shocked to find how much it's speed improved my terminal experience. Typing latency is much better in nvim, and scrolling is vastly improved in nvim and tmux. Ghostty feels like a Mac app like iTerm2 while being fast and having fewer f…

Is iTerm2 noticeably slow? I just use the built in Terminal app and I can’t imagine “speed” being a reason to switch away from it. (There is no lack of speed.)
Post reply on HN