Ghostty

“I literally just looked at filing a bug for this and then found myself unwilling to jump through the hoops.”

“still does not fix the one bug I care about: being able to quickly ⌘+F, ⌘+V - the find textbox does not respect keyboard shortcuts”

“overall I have had better experience using `toggle_visibility` to show/hide Ghostty for hotkey style window.”

“while Ghostty is a lot faster and lighter, it has occasional rendering issues and does not detect URLs as well”

“this group focuses on making higher quality versions that make very few assumptions about the host system”

“It's a technically excellent terminal built with an incredibly rigorous and well thought out guiding philosophy”

“The other day I was able to click on Ghostty, then open Gnome Terminal, type a command and run it before Ghostty had finished loading.”

“our IO throughputs in particularly the areas you tested have improved by more than double on some machines”

“It works out nicely because config options are merged, so the local file can overwrite what's in the main config.”

“There are solid production software which is already using Zig, like TigerBeetle and Ghostty/libghostty.”

“Ghostty just feels really polished and 'native' and it's obviously faster than, say, iterm or the stock term on macOS.”

“I have been using Ghostty for a few months, very intensively, all day long, and I have not seen any crash or other suspicious behavior.”

“Instant window rendering is addictive, so now I would never return from a fast terminal emulator like ghostty”

“I personally like how I barely had to configure it, how nerd fonts just worked, and how nicely it renders text”

“I think the jump in performance and usability put it on the map before the narrative could help push it further.”

“Ghostty is a good example of authority-based project management, and advances far more efficiently towards its goals than Wordpress.”

“Which is why I'm also wary of the ghostty's integration that is supposed to inject its terminfo when you ssh in.”

“Ghostty is a great piece of software, with a stellar maintainer who has a very pragmatic and measured take on using AI to develop software.”

“Apparently changing $TERM from `screen-256color` to `tmux-256color` in tmux to try and get italics working in nvim totally mangled ghostty.”

“I would not have believed the same is possible for terminals, even cross-platform, so thank you for having this vision.”

“Lack of search and lack of scrollbars make me wonder why this project got so much attention in the first place.”

“It's like being stuck in mud but it's not just ghostty, all GPU accelerated terminals on Linux I tried have this muddy feel.”

“ghostty is the sanest terminal emulator currently available for MacOS where you can just install and start using it”

“a terminal program that requires me to muck with every machine I log into to get it to work is pretty horrible”

“Without Ghostty I wouldn't have been able to create https://github.com/rcarmo/webterm and have a decent browser-based terminal that works the way I expect it to.”

“I really appreciate the font rendering, but I keep going back to iTerm2 and Terminal.app mostly because of lack of scroll back & CMD-F”

“sometimes something about the TERM internally breaks anyway and I'm back to seeing ESC codes when I press an arrow”

“The minimum-contrast feature is great, to help in those times when some color combination would have been unreadable otherwise.”

“I like how snappy Ghostty is. I do not like how it starts lagging after a few alt-tabs to Chrome and back on Linux.”

“I enjoy it, and it’s great to have another modern high performance terminal as an option for macOS and Linux.”

“existing large projects that are used in production environments have been fairly good at keeping up with Zig releases”

“It had nicer fonts by default, better tab switching that was consistent with the keyboard shortcut to switch to any tab on Mac”

“the distinction Ghostty is making here where the Discussion section is open for anyone to bring up an issue with a project makes a great deal of sense”

“I’ve been a very happy user for 2025, with some edge cases around the terminal not working on remote shells.”

“Ghostty by the revered Mitchell Hashimoto is another example of something I daily and is relatively indie.”

“SSH integration, i18N rendering, windowing, a largely (~70+%) Zig codebase, active community with actual funding”

“Thank fuck that one of the dozens if not hundreds of terminal emulators isn't going to be a rug pull”

“Recently Ghostty is a non profit, which means that it is guaranteed not to turn into a for profit and rugpull”

“Keybindings with the CMD key works right away without having to send any escape sequence or similar.”

“Ghostty has intentional effort towards correctness, more than I've seen from other terminal emulators”