From: Evan Leibovitch via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org>
(Thanks for this!)
- First and foremost, the *ghostty* terminal emulator. It's a remarkable improvement over the stock KDE or GNOME terminal app that many of us use. Also available for MacOS;
Evan: what did you find attractive? I'm just reading the readme.md from <https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty> I don't see anything that would make me change from the default on my desktop, Gnome Terminal. (I lean towards using defaults because of the "pick your fights" principle.) Ghostty is a terminal emulator that differentiates itself by being fast, feature-rich, and native. While there are many excellent terminal emulators available, they all force you to choose between speed, features, or native UIs. Ghostty provides all three. fast: for me, Gnome Terminal's performance hasn't felt like an issue. feature-rich: I don't see a feature highlighted that I need. Rendering GIFs is quite a feat but seems like a novelty act. Splitting screens I don't need because I've got windows. My text editor also splits its screen (sharing more context) native: so are most terminal emulators, including GNOME Terminal. cross-platform: I don't use other platforms much. Perhaps when they support Windows I might find it a step up from Windows Terminal, but only if the keystrokes and gestures mmach Linux ones. That would probably be a mistake: catering to me is less important than catering to Windows users. cross-platform libghostty for embeddable terminals. Sounds good but I don't write programs that need embeddable terminals. crash reports: Fedora's ABRT does this without adding code to the terminal emulator. How much code does this add the Ghostty and the project? How much of other project resources does this consume?