Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

It’s a shame that version 1.2.x got abandoned and didn’t receive any important bug fixes. That has severely cut my trust into this project. It’s been over 4 months since the last 1.2.3 release, so the memory leak when using Claude is not addressed, my Ghostty crashes are not addressed (crash reporter doesn’t work), I don’t even bother looking at the issues anymore, as I know I am not getting the fixes for a long time.

And I’m not running a critical piece of productivity software on a nightlies channel!

How much of ghostty is written by Claude?

why does everyone freak out about this terminal whenever it's posted?

I can't find an alternative to Terminator, being able to drag and drop panels to create layouts is such a strong workflow that it's very hard to give up

I did give Ghostty a try, the turn off was Adwaita, the tablet UI for the tabs and context menu.. i just can't

It's a nice terminal but it cannot be configured to the same level as iTerm, e.g. in terms of colors, look and feel, how the menus work, how the tabs work, etc.

Also, in practice, I find it hard to detect any performance difference between iTerm and Ghostty even though I know in theory that Ghostty is more performant...

So for now I go with iTerm because I prefer the UI.

just installed ghostty, looks cool. but my honest question is how it is significantly better than iterm2 to justify such a switch? I am aware of the fact that it is faster, uses less memory, various configurations is more straight forward. but is that all?

I have the feeling that I must be missing something big here.

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Bro randomly decides to post a link to ghosty docs and gets 275 points

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Ive been using Ghostty after AI recommended it for lightweight claude sessions.

No complaints been happy using it for my claude swarms for about a month

Ghostty calls itself "feature rich" but only added cmd+F / find functionality a few months ago. Makes me wonder what other basic functions it's missing.