Ghostty 1.2.0

Some Typometer measurements on i3 here:

  # Title                   Min     Max     Avg     SD
  1 xterm 397               3.1     4.0     3.5     0.2
  2 Alacritty 0.15.1        3.6     4.8     4.2     0.2
  3 xfce4-terminal 1.1.4    2.9     6.8     4.4     0.3
  4 Ghostty 1.2.0           11.3    15.5    13.0    0.7
  5 kitty 0.42.2            11.7    21.3    15.8    3.3

https://imgur.com/a/RobYTWY

  # Title      Min     Max     Avg     SD
  1 VS Code    10.8    19.7    13.0    1.2

There's a lot of great engineering that goes into Ghostty (not just in the codebase itself, but also in how the project is managed and run).

It's a lot of fun following it, just to gleam best practices from.

It's projects like this that make me feel awe. I'm a full stack developer, but I feel like I don't have the low level knowledge to know all the work that goes into a project like a terminal emulator.

I love the app on my Mac, can't wait to go home and try it out

As someone who spends most of my time remoted in to other machines, it's very hard to give up the deep tmux integration on iTerm 2, but I do cast a wandering gaze at Ghostty now and then. I know some people think tmux is a dead-end so if an alternative ever really gains traction I could be convinced to switch.

It broke on upgrade - all built-in themes now have different names, but so far so good.

Ghostty is both the greatest terminal emulator and Zig product ever made

Seems it is in every distro except the debians and fedoras, the ones I use. Also no GUI config. Guess I’ll wait a while.

I tried the app image once, and it looked promising.

still no search on MacOs, is it?

It look's like a good terminal emulator. The sad part is that on Linux it is Gnome only.