Ghostty 1.0 Is Coming

I'm missing WezTerm from that comparison image/slide posted in the article. Been using WezTerm for almost two years now I think, and I could not be happier. Best terminal emulator hands down.

Looking forward to this! Had been lurking in the discord for a while but never talked much so I never was able to get a beta key. The Terminal Inspector seems super cool and is what I&#x27;m most excited to try out. Seems like it&#x27;d be really useful for Bubble Tea [0] apps which I&#x27;ve been having run writing.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;charmbracelet&#x2F;bubbletea">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;charmbracelet&#x2F;bubbletea</a>

My number 1 issue with iTerm is that it doesn’t have a usable, plain text configuration format. I want to be able to configure my tools in plain text AND in a UI. iTerm forces me to use the UI (or import a config file, but it’s not very practical).<p>Wezterm apparently uses Lua so it will likely never have a UI. I don’t understand why a config file would ever need programming constructs, give me JSON or YAML, not Lua.<p>It sounds like Ghostty will scratch my itch.

Can someone explain why iTerm is listed as &quot;not fast&quot; here? iTerm has been my primary terminal for over a decade and I keep coming back after trying alternatives like Warp, Hyper or Alacritty. And speed or snappy-ness were never an issue with iTerm.

Can I click on paths to have them opened in my editor of choice? That&#x27;s the killer feature that always brings me back to iTerm: clicking on paths in the output of various command line tools to directly jump to the line in e.g. source code.

I&#x27;ve been daily driving Ghostty for over a year now, and have been a somewhat regular contributor. As a TUI library author, I&#x27;ve worked with several terminal authors on bug fixes and implementing features - Mitchell is among the nicest to work with. Happy to see this project launch as 1.0!

Ghostty has my daily driver for a good while now, I’ve been super happy with it. It’s been especially fun watching Mitchell deftly build a community at just the right speed for its development stage. Thank you for all your hard work and responsiveness.

Excited for this. I’ve played around with iTerm alternatives but always came back because the replacements never felt native, which ultimately slowed down my workflow more than the speed boosts helped.

If GTK+libadwaita is &quot;native&quot; for linux, then give me a custom UI. I grew up in the 80s and 90s and remember when every program rolled its own UI. It sucked, but modern GTK is in many ways worse.

Excited to try this! Hoping it is fairly low-configuration; a lot of the iTerm alternatives seem to require more configuration than I care to do in order to make them look halfway decent.

How does this compare to Tera Term? I thought that was supposed to be the best terminal emulator? I just seen it mentioned in some PDP restoration videos.

Amazing piece of software. Have been daily driving the current version of Ghostty for a few weeks on macOS.<p>Kudos @ Mitchell

Finally. I&#x27;ve been idling in Discord a long time, failing to get into the private beta.<p>I&#x27;m excited to try it out.

Maybe I should try something different than just Terminal.app and Xterm.

Can it connect to a serial port? I need a terminal to connect to a UART on embedded devices. This should be basic functionality on any terminal, but many don&#x27;t seem to have it, they&#x27;re just fancy local shells.

Can&#x27;t wait, thank you Ghislain for this news!!!

iTerm is slow? That&#x27;s a new one for me...

Another ? Both Kitty and WezTerm already feel feel much faster than iTerm atm and feature complete.