3 ms·

Ghostty I’m really interested in Mitchell Hashimoto (founder of Hashi Corp), terminal app he’s developing called Ghostty. His latest blog post on it, also rel

Ghostty I’m really interested in Mitchell Hashimoto (founder of Hashi Corp), terminal app he’s developing called Ghostty. His latest blog post on it, also related to latency & benchmarks comparable to Alacritty. https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-devlog-006 https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-devlog-006 For those interested in the tech, he’s developing it with Zig, uses SIMD extensively, and it’s cross platform. Can’t wait for him to launch it.

tmtvl 3y ago
I hope he targets something better than a vt102 (going for 520 like Zutty would be good) and remembers to do extensive checking with VTTEST. Blog post from the Zutty creator about correctness: <https://tomscii.sig7.se/2020/12/A-totally-biased-comparison-of-Zutty https://tomscii.sig7.se/2020/12/A-totally-biased-comparison-...>
- kps 3y ago
  This is promising: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-devlog-005#xterm-compatibility-audit-and-behavior-documentation-632 https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-devlog-005#xterm-compa... (I have also been bitten by terminals calling themselves `xterm-256color` or some such thing while not being remotely xterm-compatible; GNOME being the worst offender, as usual. My daily driver is mlterm¹, which is pretty good in that respect² — its main downside for me is its idiosyncratic font configuration, which is tailored for multilingual flexibility, not the English-only programmer.) ¹ https://github.com/arakiken/mlterm https://github.com/arakiken/mlterm ² https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#bug_mlterm-id https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#bug_mlterm...
- alexeiz 3y ago
  Zutty is useful for only one thing: passing VTTEST. I've tried it and it's unusable as the terminal you want to rely on to do everyday work.
  - tmtvl 3y ago
    It seems to work perfectly fine for me. What kind of issues do you have with it?

tmtvl 3y ago

I hope he targets something better than a vt102 (going for 520 like Zutty would be good) and remembers to do extensive checking with VTTEST. Blog post from the Zutty creator about correctness: <https://tomscii.sig7.se/2020/12/A-totally-biased-comparison-of-Zutty https://tomscii.sig7.se/2020/12/A-totally-biased-comparison-...>

kps 3y ago
This is promising: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-devlog-005#xterm-compatibility-audit-and-behavior-documentation-632 https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-devlog-005#xterm-compa... (I have also been bitten by terminals calling themselves `xterm-256color` or some such thing while not being remotely xterm-compatible; GNOME being the worst offender, as usual. My daily driver is mlterm¹, which is pretty good in that respect² — its main downside for me is its idiosyncratic font configuration, which is tailored for multilingual flexibility, not the English-only programmer.) ¹ https://github.com/arakiken/mlterm https://github.com/arakiken/mlterm ² https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#bug_mlterm-id https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#bug_mlterm...
alexeiz 3y ago
Zutty is useful for only one thing: passing VTTEST. I've tried it and it's unusable as the terminal you want to rely on to do everyday work.
- tmtvl 3y ago
  It seems to work perfectly fine for me. What kind of issues do you have with it?