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The amount of seggfaults I have seen with Ghostty did not raise my spirits.
by dev_l1x_be 1y ago
The amount of seggfaults I have seen with Ghostty did not raise my spirits.
- txdv 1y agoI haven't seen a single one.
- mlvljr 1y ago[dead]
- neerajk 1y agosegfaults raise my belief in spirits
- greesil 1y agoPossibly a good Halloween costume idea to go as a segfault. It would scare some people.
- dpatterbee 1y agoI've had at least one instance of Ghostty running on both my work and personal machine continuously since I first got access to the beta last November, and I haven't seen a single segfault in that entire time. When have you seen them?
- mr90210 1y agoGoogle: "wikipedia Evidence of absence" Also, https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues?q=segfault https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues?q=segfault
- dpatterbee 1y agoSo Ghostty was first publicly released on I think December 27th last year, then 1.0.1, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, and 1.1.2 were released within the next month and a half to fix bugs found by the large influx of users, and there hasn't been a segfault reported since. I would recommend that users who are finding a large number of segfaults should probably report it to the maintainers.
- metaltyphoon 1y agoLook at the issue tracker and its history too.
- dmit 1y agoI've seen the amount of effort Mitchell &co put into ensuring memory safety of Ghostty in the 1.2 release notes, but after upgrading I am still afraid to open a new pane while there's streaming output in the current one because in 1.1.3 that meant a crash more often than not.
- hnaccount19293 1y agoBun is much worse in this regard too.
- johncolanduoni 1y agoIt makes me sad, because they demonstrated JavaScriptCore is shockingly better than V8 for node-likes. The Typescript compiler (which like basically any non-trivial typechecker is CPU bound) is consistently at least 2x faster with Bun on large projects I've worked on.
- pjmlp 1y agoWhen Typescript finishes their Go rewrite that will become irrelevant, and I rather have the compiler from the same people that design the language.
- johncolanduoni 1y agoFor that example sure, and admittedly the entire JavaScript/TypeScript processing ecosystem is moving in that direction. But the TypeScript compiler is not the only CPU-bound JavaScript out there.
- pjmlp 1y agoThere are plenty of memory safe compiled languages to rewrite that JavaScript into.