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How is it possible that this thing constantly gets so much hype? It's a terminal emulator.
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…
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…
Do you think there's entry barrier, even if pride based or psychological, to the fact that libghostty is called so rather that something more generic? Let's say I'm the creator of Alacritty, would I have more problems adding libghostty than it's generically named identical counterpart libtermengine?
Just that it's a specific "product"-y sounding name? Would you also be concerned about "libwayland" vs "libcompositor"? Genuinely curious: this seems like an insightful question, I just don't follow the reasoning.
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…
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Do you think there's entry barrier, even if pride based or psychological, to the fact that libghostty is called so rather that something more generic? Let's say I'm the creator of Alacritty, would I have more problems adding libghostty than it's generically named identical counterpart libtermengine?
As an outsider to the fascinating world of terminal emulators... can you explain why this might be? Rather, what about `libghostty` would be off-putting vs `libtermengine`? Just that it's a specific "product"-y sounding name? Would you also be concerned about "libwayland" vs "libcompositor"? Genuinely curious: this seems like an insightful question, I just don't follow the reasoning.
Let's say I'm the creator of ghostty "competition".
The fact that is has the same name, could feel if I change that:
- Maybe my users start thinking why don't I use ghostty instead - Will the maintainers of libghostty chose more oriented to ghostty than for my terminal?
It's a half assed analogy, but think if Google's V8 would be called ChromeEngine instead of V8.
How is it possible that this thing constantly gets so much hype? It's a terminal emulator.
Maybe this is why the creator is touting the use of libghostty, the underlying library.
Ghostty calls itself "feature rich" but only added cmd+F / find functionality a few months ago. Makes me wonder what other basic functions it's missing.
Probably more, but after dealing with unhelpful errors while trying to debug my config file, I figured I'd come back to ghostty another time.
Also, does it support visible control characters ? EXACT EMULATION ? 3270 ? VT-105 ? VT-220 ? VT-320 ? VT-420 ? SIXEL ? NAPLPS ?
Recently tried multiple terminals because I am gradually migrating off of Macs and I liked Ghostty but the lack of searching the scrollback has turned me away from it. Opening another editor to do the same I tried but didn't like. WezTerm has everything I need and is closest to iTerm2, minus being able to quit it and have it restore all windows and tabs on restart -- but oh well, it's not an important enough feature.…
Foot is worth a look. It’s the only terminal I’ve ever seen that starts up in sub-50ms cold, without a service already running. But you do have to run a proper window manager so you don’t have to require tab support in every single app. ;)