Some Typometer measurements on i3 here:

  # Title                   Min     Max     Avg     SD
  1 xterm 397               3.1     4.0     3.5     0.2
  2 Alacritty 0.15.1        3.6     4.8     4.2     0.2
  3 xfce4-terminal 1.1.4    2.9     6.8     4.4     0.3
  4 Ghostty 1.2.0           11.3    15.5    13.0    0.7
  5 kitty 0.42.2            11.7    21.3    15.8    3.3

https://imgur.com/a/RobYTWY

  # Title      Min     Max     Avg     SD
  1 VS Code    10.8    19.7    13.0    1.2

It broke on upgrade - all built-in themes now have different names, but so far so good.

As someone who spends most of my time remoted in to other machines, it's very hard to give up the deep tmux integration on iTerm 2, but I do cast a wandering gaze at Ghostty now and then. I know some people think tmux is a dead-end so if an alternative ever really gains traction I could be convinced to switch.

It's projects like this that make me feel awe. I'm a full stack developer, but I feel like I don't have the low level knowledge to know all the work that goes into a project like a terminal emulator.

I love the app on my Mac, can't wait to go home and try it out

> Ghostty 1.3 will continue the focus of making Ghostty the "best existing terminal emulator" by shipping the last remaining major missing features to achieve parity with other popular terminal emulators. Namely, we plan on shipping scrollback search and scrollbars for 1.3, at a minimum.

Are scrollback and scrollbars that hard to implement? Or do people just don't care that much about them that they are only added in 1.3?

I tried using various terminal emulators which don't support scrollback and scrollbars with tmux (which apparently most people do as a substitute). However for me that falls apart as soon as you SSH to a remote host and need to use tmux there as well. Maybe I'm just a console-noob...

There's a lot of great engineering that goes into Ghostty (not just in the codebase itself, but also in how the project is managed and run).

It's a lot of fun following it, just to gleam best practices from.

Nice, I've been running nightly to get access to the cursor shaders. I've found them really helpful, especially when screen sharing.

It look's like a good terminal emulator. The sad part is that on Linux it is Gnome only.

Ghostty is both the greatest terminal emulator and Zig product ever made

still no search on MacOs, is it?

can you ctrl-f now?

Seems it is in every distro except the debians and fedoras, the ones I use. Also no GUI config. Guess I’ll wait a while.

I tried the app image once, and it looked promising.