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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[-] Samueru_sama@programming.dev 6 points 6 days ago

Unfortunately they decided to use the slow bloated mess that is GTK4.

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/5592#discussioncomment-13186436

this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2025

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