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Curious to know what makes this "a proper VT100 implementation in the browser, not a JavaScript approximation of one" -- isn't Ghostty also an approximation, ju

by clintonc 10mo ago

Curious to know what makes this "a proper VT100 implementation in the browser, not a JavaScript approximation of one" -- isn't Ghostty also an approximation, just implemented in a different language? Seems unnecessarily pejorative to me.

kylecarbs 10mo ago
Agreed. I removed "not a JavaScript approximation of one" from the README.
- chjj 10mo ago
  I don't mean to derail discussion about a cool project, but it still seems to imply xterm.js is somehow "improper" emulation (though I might be misreading it). Terminal emulators are all approximations of terminals, regardless of the programming language.
  - kylecarbs 10mo ago
    They are approximations but Ghostty has intentional effort towards correctness, more than I've seen from other terminal emulators.
    - chjj 10mo ago
      Fair enough. I haven't looked at the internals of ghostty, so I'll take your word for it. I'm probably also just taking things personally.
      - ballpug 10mo ago
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- badmonster 10mo ago
  Fair clarification. Does Ghostty's WASM approach have performance advantages over pure xterm.js implementations?
0x1ch 10mo ago
Aren't terminals also called... terminal emulators? All modern terminals would be an approximation by this logic. Some approximate backwards compatibility with VT** spec more than others.