Libghostty Is Coming
9 hours ago
- Mitchell Hashimoto announces libghostty-vt, a zero-dependency library for parsing terminal sequences and state, extracted from Ghostty.
- Libghostty aims to provide a correct, reusable, and fast terminal emulation solution for any application, addressing common issues in existing implementations.
- The first library, libghostty-vt, offers SIMD-optimized parsing, Unicode support, and robust testing, with a C API coming soon and a Zig module available now.
- Future plans include additional libraries for input handling, GPU rendering, and platform-specific widgets, with a goal to ship a tagged version within 6 months.