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I use Ghost TTY coming from iTerm for no other reason than I saw everybody else using and praising it. Is there some special feature I'm missing? I would only

I use Ghost TTY coming from iTerm for no other reason than I saw everybody else using and praising it. Is there some special feature I'm missing? I would only call it a marginal improvement. If that. I fail to see what the big deal is.

fridder 3mo ago
I personally like how I barely had to configure it, how nerd fonts just worked, and how nicely it renders text
mixmastamyk 3mo ago
It’s not quite finished, give it time to mature. But pretty good already.
- johnwheeler 3mo ago
  Yeah, it's a good polished piece of software no doubt. I'm not denying that, but the hype it gets is just... I don't know.
  - mixmastamyk 3mo ago
    Agreed, though it hasn’t been excessive in my experience. Just that the devs are better at marketing than others. Really shows how important that side of the equation is. Wish I was better at it myself.
    - abnercoimbre 3mo ago
      > Just that the devs are better at marketing than others. I will "quietly" self-plug Terminal Click [0] because Ghostty and TC have discussed their differences in the past (check out the Media page.) I'm definitely not ready to do splashes of any kind, because what Ghostty lacks in novelty Terminal Click lacks in polish. [0] https://terminal.click https://terminal.click
kyrra 3mo ago
input latency. the time from pressing a key to showing on-screen is much lower with ghostty (I can't find exact number, but it seems to handle input 2-4x quicker. So around 15ms instead of 60ms). Also just the general render pipeline is way faster in ghostty. There are things you just can't do in iTerm because it's so slow. Ghostty is attempting to improve the experience to allow for more things to be built in the terminal.
- rafram 3mo ago
  > input latency. I guess, but I have a hard time caring about 1/22 of a second of additional latency when iTerm works so well overall. > There are things you just can't do in iTerm because it's so slow. Such as?
novafunc 3mo ago
For me, * available on Linux and macOS * settings easy to transfer, just a file * comes with Jetbrains Mono Nerd font built-in, no need to install it separately * supports ligatures
rofrol 3mo ago
Splits can have different font sizes
- saila 3mo ago
  This doesn't seem like a particularly compelling feature to me, but iTerm can do this too (since the person you replied to mentioned iTerm, this seems relevant).
neobrain 3mo ago
> Is there some special feature I'm missing? I would only call it a marginal improvement. If that. I fail to see what the big deal is. Among the "GPU rendered terminal" options, afaik Ghostty is the only one that has proper search/context menus, tabs, and scroll bars. I'm sure it's easy to get by without, but compared to the overall value-add of these terminals (which exists indeed but isn't tremendous either) I find it quite a significant downgrade, so I appreciate that Ghostty has both.

fridder 3mo ago

I personally like how I barely had to configure it, how nerd fonts just worked, and how nicely it renders text

mixmastamyk 3mo ago

It’s not quite finished, give it time to mature. But pretty good already.

johnwheeler 3mo ago
Yeah, it's a good polished piece of software no doubt. I'm not denying that, but the hype it gets is just... I don't know.
- mixmastamyk 3mo ago
  Agreed, though it hasn’t been excessive in my experience. Just that the devs are better at marketing than others. Really shows how important that side of the equation is. Wish I was better at it myself.
  - abnercoimbre 3mo ago
    > Just that the devs are better at marketing than others. I will "quietly" self-plug Terminal Click [0] because Ghostty and TC have discussed their differences in the past (check out the Media page.) I'm definitely not ready to do splashes of any kind, because what Ghostty lacks in novelty Terminal Click lacks in polish. [0] https://terminal.click https://terminal.click

kyrra 3mo ago

input latency. the time from pressing a key to showing on-screen is much lower with ghostty (I can't find exact number, but it seems to handle input 2-4x quicker. So around 15ms instead of 60ms). Also just the general render pipeline is way faster in ghostty. There are things you just can't do in iTerm because it's so slow. Ghostty is attempting to improve the experience to allow for more things to be built in the terminal.

rafram 3mo ago
> input latency. I guess, but I have a hard time caring about 1/22 of a second of additional latency when iTerm works so well overall. > There are things you just can't do in iTerm because it's so slow. Such as?

novafunc 3mo ago

For me, * available on Linux and macOS * settings easy to transfer, just a file * comes with Jetbrains Mono Nerd font built-in, no need to install it separately * supports ligatures

rofrol 3mo ago

Splits can have different font sizes

saila 3mo ago
This doesn't seem like a particularly compelling feature to me, but iTerm can do this too (since the person you replied to mentioned iTerm, this seems relevant).

neobrain 3mo ago

> Is there some special feature I'm missing? I would only call it a marginal improvement. If that. I fail to see what the big deal is. Among the "GPU rendered terminal" options, afaik Ghostty is the only one that has proper search/context menus, tabs, and scroll bars. I'm sure it's easy to get by without, but compared to the overall value-add of these terminals (which exists indeed but isn't tremendous either) I find it quite a significant downgrade, so I appreciate that Ghostty has both.