Libghostty is a very cool project, this is an exciting release, kudos to mitchellh for spearheading this as well as all the people who have made contributions to the project. I use ghostty as my primary terminal emulator today and a few months ago I was experimenting with using libghostty in an android project that I plan to jump back to someday when I have the time, so I personally benefit from this work.
Indeed it is. It feels like libghostty was only announced yesterday and already there are things like ghostel for emacs that are imo far above and beyond the other emacs terminal options.
As of recently, the embedded terminal in Jetbrains IDEs is also based on libghostty.
And it has been such an upgrade.
There was so many little things that bugs me with JediTerm, unsupported escape sequences, bugged visualization, truncated output, you name it.
Now it just work, like it supposed to.
Libghostty is such an awesome project, I didn't myself understand the vision a year ago but I've since then been working on my own terminal project using Libghostty and it really does just work and save me such a tremendous amount of work. Kudos to all the contributors!
I’m curious why they chose to use C for this as opposed to Zig with a c like interface.
it's Zig with a C ABI
It's Zig
What's better, iTerm2 or Ghostty?
In the age of perpetual 0.x software, it's nice to see a well-known project get to 1.0
Agreed. I feel like too much projects are too reluctant to take the responsibility to say "this is production ready".
And we still don't have Ghostty for Windows
There are several third-party Windows ports:
- Noctty (~517 stars)
- GhosttyWin3
- ghostty-windows (~79 stars)
congrats to mitchell and team!