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Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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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 interactivi…

It basically boils down to: (a) 90s web developers tended not to have computer science backgrounds and weren't aware of fundamentals -> (b) when js frameworks exploded in popularity and diversity in the 00s, there was much wheel reinventing, because those developers (and to a lesser degree framework inventors) were often ignorant of wheels -> (c) there are persistent, fundamental mistakes* in the web ecosystem that could have been fixed at the start if anyone with experience had been asked.

All of those people are now the vibe coders of the 20s, and it's going to end up in the same dumpster fire of 'Who knew it might be a good idea to cryptographically sign and control library packages in a public repository?'

* Note: I'm distinguishing things going sideways despite best intentions and careful planning from YOLO + 'Oops, how could that possibly have happened?' shit

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

#372

Serious question here, not trolling. Ghostty looks great; obviously a lot of hard work went into it. My question is why? I am seriously curious about what motivated you to make this considering the space is already so crowded with reasonable solutions. I see this kind of almost duplication of effort a lot, and I am really interested in what motivates people to undertake these kind of projects.

Why do you need a new search engine called Google when you have Yahoo Search, Ask Jeeves etc.

People do it because they care about some X factor, maybe they dont like that most existing terminals are slow and they want to build a better product.

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