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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by mikkelam »

I have honestly been so excited to try this after listening to several videos of mitchell talking about his work. What a christmas present!

A terminal is so dear to us software engineers, and this seems like such a love declaration to the terminal.

Time to spend hours tuning my config!

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by diggan »

swyx wrote: post #31
alejoar wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the first thing I went looking for when looking at the docs, thank you.

what does quake mode do?

Comes from video games where you usually can hit ~ (tilde) or other character to make a in-game console appear, usually sliding down from above or at least in the top half/third/quarter of the screen. Popularized by Quake and games from that heritage (like Source engine) I suppose.

Desktop equivalent is that you have a terminal available at a short-cut/button-press that will always show it but not fully hide the rest, no matter what other context you're in. Pretty handy.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by [deleted] »

alberth wrote: post #30

For those who don’t have the background: - created by Mitchell (founder of HashiCorp) - it’s developed in Zig (and Mitchell recently pledge $300k to Zig foundation) - uses native UI (which is super rare for cross platform app) - amazingly performant. e.g. https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/111919642467789362 - has lots of amazing small details like below https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/113330304084905500 https://hachyde…

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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by jedisct1 »

modernerd wrote: post #20

Ghostty has a hard-to-find "quake mode" that may interest some. During the beta I had it configured like this on macOS: keybind = global:cmd+space=toggle_quick_terminal quick-terminal-animation-duration = 0.1 There isn't an option to set the default height of the "quick terminal" window that I'm aware of but you can drag the bottom of the window after it opens and it will persist between toggles.

Super handy!

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by mitchellh »

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 hate for being relatively slow but nothing comes close to touching it in terms of feature count. Rio is a super cool newer terminal, too. The world of terminals is great.

I’ve posted a personal reflection here, which has a bit more history on why I started this, what’s next, and some of the takeaways from the past two years. https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-1-0-reflection

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by BrouteMinou »

ksec wrote: post #29

This feels like the Vagrant moment [1] again. Cant believe 15 years have passed already. Together with Bun I believe that is two high profile open source software made with Zig. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175901

Wayland WM "River" is great too.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by dang »

Related. Others?

Ghostty 1.0 Is Coming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41914025 - Oct 2024 (32 comments)

Ghostty Devlog 004 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37709113 - Sept 2023 (2 comments)

Talk: Ghostty and Some Useful Zig Patterns - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37491031 - Sept 2023 (2 comments)

Mitchell Hashimoto's Ghostty Devlog - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36736686 - July 2023 (1 comment)

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