7 comments

  • cyanregiment 12 minutes ago
    Geeking out on terminals is like geeking out on shoelaces.

    I'm glad you guys are out there - someone has to do it.

  • yjftsjthsd-h 36 minutes ago
    > The executable is named st; the desktop application and icon are named shitty

    That conflicts with the already existing suckless st.

    Also I am suitably impressed with the perf numbers, but I also somewhat take away that I could stick with (at least) alacritty or ghostty and not be much slower.

    • pg83 29 minutes ago
      I know, but there aren't that many two-letter abbreviations!
      • functionmouse 26 minutes ago
        on one hand I wanna say you shouldn't make conflicting names

        on the other hand what gives them the right to st but not you?

        • voakbasda 5 minutes ago
          Let the best tool win.
  • theturtletalks 6 minutes ago
    Any plans for a "libghostty" alternative for your terminal?
    • pg83 3 minutes ago
      No, there are no such plans right now, but overall, the project's architecture allows for easy separation of different layers for developing a terminal emulator - the parser, in the form of a ragel state machine, and the vterm state machine, with distinct boundaries between them. The rendering layer is separated slightly less clearly, but it's also solvable.
  • Barbing 46 minutes ago
    Unironically better name than “CRM“ for a CRM https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49142360

    With this you can DuckDuckKagi for the crappy terminal (versus “CRM crm”… ah guess they wanted you to remember their company name)

  • normie3000 34 minutes ago
    Why wouldn't you use this?
    • Retr0id 26 minutes ago
      Personally, I have never felt constrained by the performance of my terminal, so I pick based on other features.

      (I have, also, thought about building my own perf-optimized terminal. It's a fun problem space!)

    • pg83 25 minutes ago
      For example, flicker free resizes for MacOS, something that neither Kitty, nor Alacritti, nor Ghostty can boast of.
      • y1n0 4 minutes ago
        I'm not knocking your project, but ghostty doesn't flicker for me on resize. Is this a common problem people have?

        My main complaint with ghostty is the crappy configuration.

  • JSR_FDED 39 minutes ago
    I’m all in on wizzterm
    • ymir_e 38 minutes ago
      You mean wezterm right?
  • h0mie 12 minutes ago
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