We need to stop this usage of proprietary. MS GitHub + Discord in free software. It completely undermines the philosophy.

A lot of talk here about the fact that it’s GPU accelerated. I guess because of the title of the article. But that’s not Ghostty’s main selling point, at all.

First of all, lots of major terminal emulators are GPU accelerated. Alacrity, kitty, and wezterm are a few examples. How would you deal with an 8gb log file? It’s instances like that where a GPU can help. It’s not for “cool effects” and riced out config files.

Ghostty was created to fill a niche gap: the intersection of the following three properties: fast, feature rich, and native. While it may not come in first place in any of those categories, it is competitive in all three. That’s what the selling points of Ghostty are.

Finally a gpu accelerated Terminal emulator with tabbing.

I'm not against it, but another factor that we should check in a terminal emulator (as a tool where you run everything from) is the system requirements.

I'm using urxvt and that's so easy on the system, it starts instantly. I can open multiple instances without worrying about the system resources.

I believe it uses X.org's text rendering. X.org uses OpenGL under the hood. It's not CPU rendered.

Alacrity felt bulkier when I tried. I will try this too though.

Unless it is trying to actually look cool like "cool retro terminal" or something, I fail to see how the point. I don't recall ever in the history of my terminal use ever thinking "man, this terminal emulator is so slow!" I mean, really... 120fps 4k terminals. Neat I guess?

Nice this project was always interesting! Seems very feature rich, glad it’s out of that invite only stage