Ghostty is a fast, cross-platform terminal emulator

10 months ago

Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and native terminal emulator that doesn't force users to choose between speed, features, or native UIs.
It aims to push the boundaries of terminal emulation by supporting modern, opt-in features for CLI tool developers.
Ghostty is standards-compliant, competitive in performance, and supports basic customizability like fonts and background colors.
It offers richer windowing features such as multi-window, tabbing, and panes, and provides native platform experiences.
Ghostty includes a cross-platform library called libghostty for embedding terminals in third-party projects.
The macOS app is a SwiftUI-based application with a Metal renderer, while the Linux app is built with GTK.
Ghostty has a built-in crash reporter that saves reports locally and can be uploaded to Sentry for analysis.
Building Ghostty from source requires additional dependencies on Linux, such as blueprint-compiler.
Documentation and resources are linted using Prettier, and Nix modules are formatted with Alejandra.
The Nix package depends on a fixed-output derivation for the Zig package cache, which occasionally needs updating.

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