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Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by Vinnl »

novella_rel wrote: post #241
danilafe wrote: post #198

I keep seeing Ghostty in the news, and I've tried it, but it feels like just another terminal emulator to men. This coming from someone who spends 90% of the workday in the terminal. Asking in good faith -- could someone tell me what's special about Ghostty compared to alternatives?

To me it has a couple advantages over the other options on the market. 1. Feels 'native' and is built for each platform. This means I can use for example familiar right click context menu's and tabs that I find on every other app. I have the option to use the mouse as well as the keyboard which I appreciate. 2. It has sensible defaults with a "Zero Configuration Philosophy" meaning that many of the things I would usu…

What's an example of a thing you usually need to fiddle with? I feel like 1 and 3 are already true for my existing native terminal emulators, which I also never configure. So presumably there are things Ghostty does that aren't enabled by default on my other ones that I could take advantage of?

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Post by agos »

eviks wrote: post #226
jwr wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's just better in every way than anything else I have ever tried (at least on a Mac). The author cares and it shows. BTW, I recently discovered shaders and cursor_blaze is absolutely awesome.

It would be helpful if you actually listed the ways and the else

For one, it’s way faster than both iTerm and terminal.app, the two most used terminal apps on MacOS

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Post by sundarurfriend »

conradev wrote: post #212
sundarurfriend wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 do not speak for the 'club, but I believe it was resolved: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292042

Yes, as I mentioned, Slack made a U-turn after the thread got popular and became a PR disaster (after having ignored the issue again and again previously). That kind of behaviour indicates a service that shouldn't be relied on so much, at least not without low-friction alternates that you keep ready to jump onto, in case some exec there decides again that the Club is too tempting a prize to not attempt another squeeze.

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Post by tiborsaas »

danilafe wrote: post #198

I keep seeing Ghostty in the news, and I've tried it, but it feels like just another terminal emulator to men. This coming from someone who spends 90% of the workday in the terminal. Asking in good faith -- could someone tell me what's special about Ghostty compared to alternatives?

I used iTerm2 a lot, configured it to my liking, but then I tried Ghostty for curiosity and for some reason I sticked to it. I think it's just cleaner and leaner and the default looks pretty cool and minimalistic, I don't really miss anything from iTerm.

Yes, it's just another terminal emulator, but a pretty solid one that just works.

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Post by wpm »

catlover76 wrote: post #124
arjie wrote: post #69

Mitchell Hashimoto is a real programmer in the old vein. It's lovely to see him succeed. Ghostty is fantastic to use. There was a devtools blackhole era once where if you got in that business you were just giving things away and never got to reap the rewards. Then there was this era of founders who figured out how to make it sticky and capture value in a Pareto-optimal way. Love to see it.

I always found the fact that he named a company after himself to be pretty off-putting, personally Also, didn't said company piss people off in some way that led to Open Tofu being created?

Hashicorp is a good name though it’d be hard to pass up

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Post by blazinglyfast »

jwr wrote: post #219
danilafe wrote: post #198

I keep seeing Ghostty in the news, and I've tried it, but it feels like just another terminal emulator to men. This coming from someone who spends 90% of the workday in the terminal. Asking in good faith -- could someone tell me what's special about Ghostty compared to alternatives?

It's just better in every way than anything else I have ever tried (at least on a Mac). The author cares and it shows. BTW, I recently discovered shaders and cursor_blaze is absolutely awesome.

Have you tried kitty?

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Post by mghackerlady »

mindcrash wrote: post #36
bos wrote: post #3

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.

Rather thank IBM for paying Mitchell an outrageous amount of money for Hashicorp, so he can devote all of his time on awesome projects like Ghostty without ever thinking about sustainable income ever again. So thanks, IBM! <3

I always feel weird thanking IBM. On one hand, they've funded numerous FOSS projects, and made the thinkpad, an amazing CPU architecture (PPC), and seem to be the only ones actually innovating in the tech space sometimes. On the other hand, they bought Redhat and seem actively hostile to any FOSS projects that don't make them money

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Post by alexalx666 »

kombine wrote: post #243
danilafe wrote: post #198

I keep seeing Ghostty in the news, and I've tried it, but it feels like just another terminal emulator to men. This coming from someone who spends 90% of the workday in the terminal. Asking in good faith -- could someone tell me what's special about Ghostty compared to alternatives?

I've been using Kitty terminal and they are absolutely comparable in the feature set: GPU-based rendering, speed, customisation. OS-native controls in Ghostty are not very important to me, I like terminal being a terminal, not a GUI.

ghostty is faster than kitty (MBP M4 Max), I did not expect that

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Post by NoGravitas »

tristan957 wrote: post #115
neop1x wrote: post #106

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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.

I use Ghostty because it is a native application, and it looks great on macOS and GNOME. WezTerm, Kitty, and Foot don't do that for me. Foot is great though.

After some update, Ghostty stopped working on Gnome+Mesa on older Intel graphics (IvyBridge). It doesn't really feel native to me if it doesn't run everywhere the toolkit it uses runs. I understand the reasons, but it leaves a sour taste.
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