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Nice addition. Slightly more CPU heavy than Kitty. in MacOS yabai tiling manager has problems dealing with native tabs, that's gonna annoy me like with Finder. also in MacOS try pressing "Cmd + Shift + \", also works in Finder, it's there, it's cool, but I never use it.
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I was using iTerm up until about a week ago when I unboxed a new Mac and decided to test out alternatives while setting it up. Ghostty wasn't out yet so I started with Wezterm, and was shocked to find how much it's speed improved my terminal experience. Typing latency is much better in nvim, and scrolling is vastly improved in nvim and tmux. Ghostty feels like a Mac app like iTerm2 while being fast and having fewer f…
Is iTerm2 noticeably slow? I just use the built in Terminal app and I can’t imagine “speed” being a reason to switch away from it. (There is no lack of speed.)
Wezterm moves instantly.
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This. To add some words why this is important: Given the remote-first container-based world we're heading towards, decoupling UI (terminal emulator) from its "backend" (tmux, code-server) is a great design decision, which I think will ultimately define what the "next generation" of terminal emulators is. Imagine being able to open tabs directly on remote host, reconnect without losing state, etc, all while using nati…
> Given the remote-first container-based world we're heading towards You might want to expand on who "we" are here, because to me it seems to be a very small section of developers who want a "remote-first" experience and most (if not everyone) I speak with want software and tools that work local/offline-first, including our dear development environment. If a tool requires a internet connection to work (so this "remot…
- Connecting from Windows/macOS host to a local VM
- Connecting to a build server over LAN (I have a beefy PC but prefer to work from my couch)
Both work offline just fine, but from tooling perspective you are connecting to remote host over the network
I’ve been very disappointed with Alacritty (no support for split term in favor of tmux) and WezTerm (insane config format, config has no business using a full fledged programming language) feature wise, so I have high hopes regarding Ghostty, can’t wait to try it!
Insanely good ;)
Being able to quickly script minor functionality into my terminal emulator is my favorite thing about WezTerm
> Split Right | Split Down Thanks for this. After 7 years of using iterm2 I still don't know what will happen with the ambiguous "Split Horizontally | Split Vertically". I know the issue is I'm thinking about it and should just learn it, but it would be more helpful if it was named "Split A | Split B". (might be a non-native language problem)
I use Foot as my terminal and Niri as my WM. It’s a great combo. Niri handles splits for me, and I don’t need tabs. I also turn off all window decorations, so my terminal content gets 100% of the terminal’s screen real estate-- so I don't need a native UI. All that said, it looks like Ghosty can be configured to match this setup, so I’ll give it a try. I just wanted to mention Foot to anyone who is running Linux. Foo…
I am a happy foot user and I am considering switching from Sway to Niri. What has been your experience with Niri? One thing that concerns me about Niri is that it is not wlroots based. This means that many tools I accustomed to don't work with Niri. Do you have some dedicated tools for screen sharing, screen recording, screen printing, multi-monitor management, ...?
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I love this page in your docs: https://ghostty.org/docs/about Clear, friendly, modest, respectful and with the right balance of detail vs overview. Congratulations on your launch.
I'm not sure why they couldn't put that on the front page. Or at least on the front page of the documentation. As it stands now, the front page is pretty useless if you never heard of ghostty. It's a ghost in a terminal? And there's tty in the name.... so is it a program to show ghosts in your terminal?
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This. To add some words why this is important: Given the remote-first container-based world we're heading towards, decoupling UI (terminal emulator) from its "backend" (tmux, code-server) is a great design decision, which I think will ultimately define what the "next generation" of terminal emulators is. Imagine being able to open tabs directly on remote host, reconnect without losing state, etc, all while using nati…
> Given the remote-first container-based world we're heading towards You might want to expand on who "we" are here, because to me it seems to be a very small section of developers who want a "remote-first" experience and most (if not everyone) I speak with want software and tools that work local/offline-first, including our dear development environment. If a tool requires a internet connection to work (so this "remot…
Not that developers want remote-first experience, but they face it. Containers in this regard behave like remote systems, even when run locally. A tool that helps juggle multiple remote contexts in a sane way may be very helpful. Say, tmux does a lot to help, but more is of course possible.
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But not showing any of the native interface elements that are supposed to set this terminal emulator apart.
The home page is obviously going for 'quirky', but it's mad that it doesn't even say "...is a terminal emulator" anywhere. At first, I thought Ghostty was an ASCII animation library! I guess the name's suffix should've clued me in, but that's easy to overlook in a hurry.
The homepage is cool but on mobile it isn’t at all obvious this is software, let alone a terminal emulator. If this HN post didn’t already have like 1000 votes I probably wouldn’t have even bothered with testing the link. I would have said “cool ghost” and moved on with my day.
That being said, I am looking forward to trying this as an iterm2 replacement. Iterm2 has been my default terminal on Mac since forever… it was probably the first hit for “putty for mac” or something, and I probably installed it and never even considered trying something else. It’s always “just worked”.