Libghostty 1.0

(mitchellh.com)

203 points | by mfiguiere 2 hours ago

11 comments

  • JuniperMesos 1 hour ago
    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.
    • shoobiedoo 1 hour ago
      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.
      • chuckadams 54 minutes ago
        As of recently, the embedded terminal in Jetbrains IDEs is also based on libghostty.
        • AnggaSP 34 minutes ago
          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.

      • iLemming 21 minutes ago
        Yess! Finally I can run nvim +term inside the Emacs frame and then call emacs -nw in there. Matryoshkamacs is the dream. We all live in a simulation.
  • amterp 42 minutes ago
    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!
  • IlikeMadison 16 minutes ago
    Libghostty made the best terminal for Emacs possible (Ghostel). Thank you Mitchell.
  • Decabytes 59 minutes ago
    I’m curious why they chose to use C for this as opposed to Zig with a c like interface.
    • nektro 54 minutes ago
      it's Zig with a C ABI
    • minraws 53 minutes ago
      It's Zig
    • trollbridge 10 minutes ago
      It’s Zog with a C ABI. Zig bindings are a bit of a moving target still.
  • gregjw 20 minutes ago
    an early christmas present, thanks mitch and team
  • nektro 53 minutes ago
    congrats to mitchell and team!
  • Sparkle-san 1 hour ago
    In the age of perpetual 0.x software, it's nice to see a well-known project get to 1.0
    • xiaoyu2006 1 hour ago
      Agreed. I feel like too much projects are too reluctant to take the responsibility to say "this is production ready".
  • matrixhelix 53 minutes ago
    And we still don't have Ghostty for Windows
    • gregjw 20 minutes ago
      I use it on Windows all the time, just use a community solution or roll your own
    • fhub 46 minutes ago
      There are several third-party Windows ports:

      - Noctty (~517 stars)

      - GhosttyWin3

      - ghostty-windows (~79 stars)

  • loeg 23 minutes ago
    This is so fuckin' cool.
  • brcmthrowaway 29 minutes ago
    What's better, iTerm2 or Ghostty?
    • dmerrick 0 minutes ago
      iTerm2 has way more features and configuration options

      Ghostty is simpler and faster

    • loeg 22 minutes ago
      What's better, an apple or an orange?
    • sick_of_slop 5 minutes ago
      [dead]
  • mococa 1 hour ago
    [flagged]
    • x86x87 1 hour ago
      what does that have to do with anything? care to explain?
    • nektro 53 minutes ago
      it's Zig with a C ABI
    • ethin 58 minutes ago
      Boo-hoo. Not everyone wants to use Rust for every little thing in the universe.
    • sroerick 1 hour ago
      Too bad you completely missed the point