How is it possible that this thing constantly gets so much hype? It's a terminal emulator.
Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
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#272The 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 don't feel like this is a fair argument because different tools help different workflows. Since there is always a continuous growth of new people learning new things, it would make sense that tools change over time. Especially in a realm that is digital, not physical. FWIW once I found my workflow (vim + tmux) I stopped caring so much about chasing "new" tools. Now have the luxury to wait 3-5 years and see what's w…
Dude we are literally talking about a single text box in a window in this case.
Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
#273The 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…
This is not about it being a hobby, ghostty is the sanest terminal emulator currently available for MacOS where you can just install and start using it. Customising your terminal doesn't need to be your hobby anymore.
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#274How much of ghostty is written by Claude?
Mitchell Hashimoto doesn’t need LLM’s, LLM’s need Mitchell Hashimoto
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#275It's a nice terminal but it cannot be configured to the same level as iTerm, e.g. in terms of colors, look and feel, how the menus work, how the tabs work, etc. Also, in practice, I find it hard to detect any performance difference between iTerm and Ghostty even though I know in theory that Ghostty is more performant... So for now I go with iTerm because I prefer the UI.
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#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I tried Wezterm last year, you couldn't select more than 3-5 lines of text. I went to fix the 'bug', I found that it was intentional because it allocates a string and copies multiple times every time you click and drag. Even if that's fixed, that design put me off the terminal forever.
Been using/abusing wezterm for years, my scrollback is set to 1000000 and text selection has never been a problem... copy mode however does make it even easier
I hed to look this up, so here's a correction: it was one large line logically split, not smaller lines. So you can't select, say, a long compact JSON line.
Still not fixed: https://github.com/wezterm/wezterm/issues/3494
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#277I've never quite understood why terminal emulators nowadays have GPU acceleration. They've not been slow for a long time. What am I missing?
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#278Earlier quoted context omitted.
The terminal was _always awesome_, the bar to realized that was just a tad high for many people. Until now!
here-doc usage has probably 100x-ed in the last year
It's 1,000,000,000,000x easy. Have found enough annoying bugs in powershells implementation of it that I know nobody is using it.
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#279The 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 agree to an extent that tools are not important.
But, for me, there is a certain threshold that a tool must pass to be useful. A tool that is below this level is only slowing you down or limiting your abilities.
You wouldn't use a knife to tighten screws if you have a perfectly good screwdriver lying around. And there's little to no advantage of buying a new expensive or over-engineered screwdriver.
I believe, plain vi is the lowest I can go for writing code. That doesn't mean that I can't use notepad or nano, but they fall under the level of being useful and only cripple and slow me down.
Ghostty passes this level of usability for me, but personally I'm fine with st - no gpu, no cpu spikes, uses barely any ram and still feels snappier. So, what's the point?
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#280How much of ghostty is written by Claude?
Mitchell Hashimoto doesn’t need LLM’s, LLM’s need Mitchell Hashimoto
This was a great interview but Mitchell:
https://youtu.be/WjckELpzLOU
He covers his LLM uses too! Highly recommend, and Mitchell thoughts on open source inspired me to start contributing to projects outside of my common experience.