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Ghostty terminal is out! (github.com)

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[–] crestwave@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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?

[–] brie@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've never seen a slow terminal emulator. Most terminals have tabs and splits. Never experienced compatibility issues. Don't care about Zig at all.

Are these all the reasons? Another toy software written out of boredom.

[–] crestwave@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Most terminal emulators are in fact slow and they can be a huge bottleneck if you run complex TUIs or workloads that print a lot of output.

Ever written a program that was extremely slow only for it to run instantly after removing your debug print statements? That's because your terminal is slow.

Fast terminal emulators already exist, but they notably refused to add tabs/splits and overall tended to be quite janky. Ghostty merging these features may not be the most groundbreaking innovation, but a high quality piece of software that can drop-in replace something you use daily with some cool improvements is something to be excited about to me. :-)

[–] brie@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks, this clears things up. I didn't know what exactly was making print IO slow.

I don't use any complex TUIs. Pretty much everything is CLI or GUI. Which TUIs did you have in mind that were slow?

I'd like to test this soon. I'll look for a modern TUI framework.

[–] FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

On slow terminals k9s can be rather sluggish when scrolling through the lists

[–] brie@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago

Fair. I hate kube though. Most companies run just 10 pods because they cargo cult google. The complexity of it is completely unjustified

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I've never seen a slow terminal emulator.

https://feddit.uk/comment/14184961

Most terminals have tabs and splits.

Most for wayland have no tabs.

[–] brie@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago

Why is it so funny to see issues with a terminal running in 4k? It never crossed my mind that some folks do that.

Konsole has no tabs?

[–] False@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I couldn't care less what language its written in