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

submitted 8 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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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 8 months 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

[-] Shareni@programming.dev 7 points 8 months ago

Has terabytes of storage

Worried about a 30 megs

nuff said

[-] treeshateorcs@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

unused RAM is wasted RAM right?

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