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Could someone give me an idea why I would want to use this instead of any other terminal?

• jeremy_k 2y ago
  Same request. As someone who uses the standard Teriminal application on my MBP I'm wondering what benefits I might find from Ghostty
  • spopejoy 2y ago
    I think "vanilla" terminal users such as myself (e.g. I don't do a bunch of screen/tmuxing, I don't code in terminals etc) probably are not the target audience. I've had zero issues with standard macos terminal ( once I realized how to speed up key repeat in system settings that is), so I assume I don't need this.
    • jeremy_k 2y ago
      Makes a lot of sense, I fall into the same bucket as you so thank you for the response. I use the terminal to start up services and issue git commands. Beyond that, not too much.
    • luismedel 2y ago
      Same club here. I feel comfortable even with the crappiest terminal out there, as far as it allows me to write commands and read/copy output. Even the terminal in the Inferno OS felt good enough for me, like 20 years ago.
• orliesaurus 2y ago
  simplicity, feels zen-mode vs a lot of over-the-top-terminals these days also (from the docs): > Ghostty supports the Kitty graphics protocol, light/dark mode notifications, hyperlinks, and more. This lets terminal applications like Neovim, Zellij, and others do more than they could in other terminal emulators. Application features are higher-level features that are useful for interacting with the terminal emulator itself. For example, Ghostty supports native tabs, splits, a drop-down terminal on macOS, theme switching on system dark/light mode, etc.