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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by pfg_ »

tylerchilds wrote: post #369
mitchellh wrote: post #48

Ghostty got a lot of hype (I cover this in my reflection below), but I want to make sure I call out that there is a good group of EXCELLENT terminals out there, and I'm not claiming Ghostty is strictly better than any of them. Ghostty has different design goals and tradeoffs and if it's right for you great, but if not, you have so many good choices. Shout out to Kitty, WezTerm, Foot in particular. iTerm2 gets some ha…

super cool! kitty has been my default for a few years now— highly superficial, but my designer side landed on kitty as it was one of the few that supports ligatures by default, specifically for the fira code font for my bias. does ghostty support ligatures?

not only does it support them, but the default font provides them. although it splits the ligature in half if your cursor is in the middle of it which feels a little weird to me

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by robertlagrant »

urbandw311er wrote: post #82
progbits wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I like where we're headed with tools like this and Ladybird[0] for hope of a subscriptionless future. That's a weird statement. I've been running a free, open-source and subscription-less browser (firefox) and terminal emulator (many) for close to 20 years. Actually I like what ladybird is doing in the browser space, given firefox is quite dependent on google cash. But this is just yet another terminal emulator in…

Your rebuttal is not mutually exclusive to the parent comment. They say it’s the first _new_ such thing in a while, not that there aren’t any in existence.

It does where it says they give hope for a wunsciptionless future. We've always had subscriptionless, and the software that was subscriptionless is still around.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by gigatexal »

mitchellh wrote: post #48

Ghostty got a lot of hype (I cover this in my reflection below), but I want to make sure I call out that there is a good group of EXCELLENT terminals out there, and I'm not claiming Ghostty is strictly better than any of them. Ghostty has different design goals and tradeoffs and if it's right for you great, but if not, you have so many good choices. Shout out to Kitty, WezTerm, Foot in particular. iTerm2 gets some ha…

How do you plan on sustaining the project? Do you have enough committers so you’ll not burn out? Will you need support? Is there a way to donate? I guess what I’m getting at is what is the long term sustainability work around this?

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by epcoa »

arghwhat wrote: post #79
mitchellh wrote: post #48

Ghostty got a lot of hype (I cover this in my reflection below), but I want to make sure I call out that there is a good group of EXCELLENT terminals out there, and I'm not claiming Ghostty is strictly better than any of them. Ghostty has different design goals and tradeoffs and if it's right for you great, but if not, you have so many good choices. Shout out to Kitty, WezTerm, Foot in particular. iTerm2 gets some ha…

Just make sure not to get caught in the pitfall that is maximum render speed, which can lead to missing out on efficiency during slow and partial rendering. Missing damage tracking, always painting everything (even when the window is a full 4k monitor), etc. kills performance and input latency when dealing with realistic redraw workloads like text editing, blinking cursors and progress bars. Much too often to termina…

> Missing damage tracking, always painting everything (even when the window is a full 4k monitor),

Out of curiosity, what GPU accelerated terminal does this.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by bonniesimon »

I've tried it out and I can notice that ghostty is a little more snappy than Alacritty. I was happy with Alacritty, but I used a face a weird issue where the whole terminal freezes. I'm not sure if this is a Alacritty issue or tmux issue. I can only confirm this by using Ghostty and checking if the same issue happens.

Anyways this is a great piece of software. I've never been this hyped for a software ever before. Great work team.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by [deleted] »

e3bc54b2 wrote: post #319
kristopolous wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

well you'll have to get a DD on board to do the work and zig isn't even in debian so that'd have to get there first and the person wanting the terminal probably doesn't want to maintain the programming language as well. So that probably means 2 DDs. Again, there is a non-normal distance here.

That seems like a very Debian problem. Perhaps if one was inclined, Nix can provide immediate resolution, since it can be installed and used on Debian and ghostty project provides convenient flake. Granted I'm on NixOS, but took me grand total of 60 seconds to update config and 8 minutes of actually building on a slow machine.

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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by [deleted] »

zerebos wrote: post #282
videlov wrote: post #26

I have found the following community site for generating Ghostty config quite helpful https://ghostty.zerebos.com/

Hey this is my tool, thanks for sharing! I've been very happy with how well received it has been so far!

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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by nasretdinov »

opan wrote: post #267
fishgoesblub wrote: post #22

I initially scoffed when I read "platform-native UI" as I've found programs made in Electron typically proclaim something similar when they are anything but native, so when I saw it used GTK for Linux (SwiftUI for MacOS) my interests were piqued. Always fun to mess around with new terminal emulators. edit: alas, it doesn't support bitmap fonts..

>it doesn't support bitmap fonts Very disappointing. Not sure why people are trying to kill off bitmap support in everything these days. Will stick with foot.

IMO the main reason is high DPI screens. On macs it's essentially the default, and it'll probably become the default in the future for everything. Since bitmap fonts make much more sense with low pixel density I think it's not going to be a priority for any newly developed apps.
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