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Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by ulf-77723 »

rvz wrote: post #196
thewebguyd wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Why the hate against web developers?

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by benrutter »

pdimitar wrote: post #28

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.…

> Alacritty I like but the lack of tabs is not acceptable for the moment... and before you ask: I hate tmux.

Surprised none of the other commenters have mentioned zellij. I work across windows (WSL) and linux so really like having the same set up for both, which means no Ghostty/Kitty since they don't support windows.

Zellij is a lot smoother and nicer looking out the box, and its key shortcuts are pretty intuitive. There's a lit of advantages to not having an extra layer, but zellij + alacritty is definitely worth having in your list of options!

https://zellij.dev/

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Post by lambdas »

KingMob wrote: post #297
lambdas wrote: post #274

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Mitchell Hashimoto doesn’t need LLM’s, LLM’s need Mitchell Hashimoto

Ewww, hero worship.

I was more getting at the angle that when people say things like “Wow, I asked AI to code a terminal emulator and it got it mostly right!”, it’s not because the LLM is amazingly smart only by inference, it’s been trained on the appropriated code of individuals like the above.

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Post by LaxisB »

hesdeadjim wrote: post #99
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…

Random advice question. My brother taught himself to program and has been making a terminal-based game. What started out small has turned into a highly polished game with ascii art, sound, you name it. I’ve been trying to figure out how I could actually help him distribute it and I keep coming back to the best option being to wrap his programs terminal output into a host process that can emulate and render it. It see…

somehwere else in this thread this project was mentioned (uses libghostty): https://github.com/weedonandscott/trolley

that might be a viable approach for you

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by eMPee584 »

ulf-77723 wrote: post #321
rvz wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Why the hate against web developers?

Because of all the laggy javascript, wasting precious compute and gigawatts of power just to make buttons dance, track us and shove ads up ours?

Websites used to be below 100KiB - now they come with MEGABYTES of obfuscated JS.. wtf

Though obviously, it's not the individual developer to blame but the incentive system.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by httgp »

msikora wrote: post #212
pants2 wrote: post #18

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.

I have Ghostty 1.2.3 and it STILL does not have cmd+F find.

It's been available on nightlies for a while, and should land in 1.3.0 in a week or two.

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Post by TheFlyingFish »

ulf-77723 wrote: post #321
rvz wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Why the hate against web developers?

The HN zeitgeist has something of a love/hate relationship with the web, I've noticed. HN in general seems to skew a little older than a lot of online communities, so a lot of HN users were adults back in the early days of the web/Usenet/etc. There's a tendency to view those days with nostalgia, leading a lot of people to feel like the "good old days" of the web were "ruined" by the modern shift into more interactivity, fancier/prettier design, etc. And "web developers" are the ones proximately responsible for the shift, so they get the hate too.

I laugh every time I see someone on HN asserting that the web "shouldn't" be used for anything beyond "documents and lightly interactive content", which is not uncomment. There's some real old-man-yelling-at-clouds energy there.

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Post by skywhopper »

ulf-77723 wrote: post #321
rvz wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Why the hate against web developers?

Have you used the web recently? It’s a mess. Most sites don’t actually work well. Everything is slow and bloated and ad-filled, pulling hundreds of megs from hundreds of hosts to display a single page covered in popup alerts, subscription begs, cookie warnings, and paywalls.
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