Ghostty terminal is out!
Ghostty terminal is out!
Looked at it, interesting, no package, installed
cosmic-terminsteadUses alacritty under the hood, with tabs and tiles!
Looking at ghostty-git in AUR, zig is built on haskell? With 221 haskell libraries.
And what does it need pandoc-cli and hslua-cli for?
Any speed comparison?
Hm... I don't see it stating anything about wayland, but since it says "native" in some many places, I need to assume it won't use Xwayland, unless specifically told to.
Right? Anyone to confirm?
i dont have xwayland, and it worked (though i did not test enough(lack of interest))
It's ridiculous how much time people are spending performance optimizing terminals.
xterm on a 120MHz Pentium on X11 in the 90s performed "fine".
Assuming you had a pretty decent monitor and graphics output in the 90s, it may have been 800x600, but more likely 640x480, and you'd have been using the standard issue bitmap font with no anti-aliasing, blitted to screen using software rendering. Probably in a single colour, too.
Alas, the problem with that is that it doesn't scale. On xterm a 4K monitor, I can watch Vim redrawing the screen, paging through logs is painful. Use Kitty for the same, it's instant, I can flip through tabs and split screens too, and have niceties like anti-aliased fonts and transparency if I want them.
Some people spend a lot of time in the terminal, so I can't fault them for taking the time to make a nice working environment and sharing that work with others.
The "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" terminal?
Cool project and... no screenshots? 😭
Every. Damn. Time.It’s awesome to see a project written with Zig!
They know what they doin. Take off every zig.
And now that song is back in my head. Thanks man :|
But does it roll down like Yakuake did before I updated Fedora and broke it? :( That’s all I want.
Yes, it calls that its “quick terminal” feature
Hacker news users seem happy with its performance, so will try tomorrow. Fun with new terminals.
Is there a difference in performance between terminals? Holy hell
Edit: i always used byobu btw
Hey OP, what is the coolest feature?
thanks but i'm good with st
I've been a
footuser for quite some time now. However, this seems interesting.I think I'll stick to alacritty, but options are always fun
Same. Wezterm is good enough so far
I was very satisfied with Bash for a long time until my friend got me using Zsh. I still am not sure i need Zsh over Bash honestly. Command autocomplete is obnoxious
Different things. Bash/Zsh/Fish/Nu are shells, i.e. a low level CLI interface with the computer. On systems with graphics you need a graphical program to display the shell, e.g Konsole/Gnome-shell/Alacritty. Also there's a third (optional) program to render the line where you type commands differently, this is called a prompt and there are several different ones, e.g. Powerlevel10k/oh-my-posh/Starship.
Bash and zsh aren't terminals. They're shells.
I don’t know that anyone “needs” anything more than bash. It’s the creature comforts that sell the other shells. That said, bash has never hung or crashed on me. I can’t say the same for zsh.
I must be retarded. People are excited about a terminal emulator. Why?
People gets excited to see something written in their favourite niche language.
It's incredibly fast, has the features you would want like tabs/splits, maintains comprehensive compatibility, and is written cleanly in Zig. What's not to like?