Ghostty in review: how's the new terminal emulator? (thelibre.news)

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A few months ago, a new terminal emulator was released. It's called ghostty, and it has been a highly anticipated terminal emulator for a while, especially due to the coverage that it received from ThePrimeagen, who had been using for a while, while it was in private beta.

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[-] treeshateorcs@programming.dev 6 points 4 days ago

 ~ pacman -Si ghostty | grep Size
Download Size   : 14.05 MiB
Installed Size  : 30.96 MiB
 ~ pacman -Si foot | grep Size
Download Size   : 320.45 KiB
Installed Size  : 758.50 KiB

nuff said

[-] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 9 points 4 days ago

foot is such a lovely little program. It has everything I want for a terminal emulator: it launches instantly, it has zero lag, no fluff, excellent font rendering, excellent copy/paste handling, excellent compatibility, and it's easily configurable and themable via a sensible, well documented config file.

TFW I realize I am a foot fetishist ... 😮

[-] Shareni@programming.dev 6 points 4 days ago

Has terabytes of storage

Worried about a 30 megs

nuff said

[-] treeshateorcs@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

unused RAM is wasted RAM right?

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago

Except that it's not enough:

❯ pacman -Sii ghostty
...
Depends On      : bzip2  fontconfig  libfontconfig.so=1-64  freetype2  libfreetype.so=6-64  gcc-libs  glibc  glib2  libglib-2.0.so=0-64  libgio-2.0.so=0-64  libgobject-2.0.so=0-64  gtk4  libgtk-4.so=1-64  libx11  harfbuzz
                  libharfbuzz.so=0-64  libadwaita  libadwaita-1.so=0-64  libpng  oniguruma  pixman  zlib  ghostty-shell-integration  ghostty-terminfo
...
Download Size   : 14.05 MiB
Installed Size  : 30.96 MiB

❯ pacman -Sii foot
...
Depends On      : fcft  fontconfig  libfcft.so=4-64  libutf8proc  libxkbcommon  ncurses  pixman  wayland
Optional Deps   : foot-terminfo: extra non-standard features over terminfo included in ncurses
                  libnotify: desktop notifications
                  xdg-utils: URI launching
...
Download Size   : 320.45 KiB
Installed Size  : 758.50 KiB

For contrast:

❯ pacman -Sii konsole
...
Depends On      : glibc  gcc-libs  icu  kbookmarks  kcolorscheme  kconfig  kconfigwidgets  kcoreaddons  kcrash  kdbusaddons  kglobalaccel  kguiaddons  ki18n  kiconthemes  kio  knewstuff  knotifications  knotifyconfig  kparts  kpty
                  kservice  ktextwidgets  kwidgetsaddons  kwindowsystem  kxmlgui  qt6-base  qt6-multimedia  sh
Optional Deps   : keditbookmarks: to manage bookmarks
...
Download Size   : 2.12 MiB
Installed Size  : 9.36 MiB

[-] Samueru_sama@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

They have a Glfw build, it is a lot smaller and faster but they don't want to support it.

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