alt Hacker NewsI use Ghost TTY coming from iTerm for no other reason than I saw everybody else using and praising it.
Is there some special feature I'm missing? I would only call it a marginal improvement. If that. I fail to see what the big deal is.
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novafunc • today at 5:14 PM
For me,
* available on Linux and macOS
* settings easy to transfer, just a file
* comes with Jetbrains Mono Nerd font built-in, no need to install it separately
* supports ligatures
fridder • today at 4:16 PM
I personally like how I barely had to configure it, how nerd fonts just worked, and how nicely it renders text
mixmastamyk • today at 4:17 PM
It’s not quite finished, give it time to mature. But pretty good already.
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input latency. the time from pressing a key to showing on-screen is much lower with ghostty (I can't find exact number, but it seems to handle input 2-4x quicker. So around 15ms instead of 60ms).
Also just the general render pipeline is way faster in ghostty. There are things you just can't do in iTerm because it's so slow. Ghostty is attempting to improve the experience to allow for more things to be built in the terminal.