Is the Ghostty terminal worth the hype?

Ghostty is a new, beta invite only, terminal emulator written in Zig by Mitchell Hashimoto. People really seem to like the Ghostty terminal emulator, but is it worth the hype? lets find out!

Chapters:
0:00 - intro
1:04 - getting invited to the ghostty beta
1:22 - what is ghostty?
3:07 - installing ghostty
3:53 - ghostty's CLI
4:43 - listing keybinds
5:40 - what about the colorschemes?
6:50 - modifying and reloading our config
8:37 - ligatures and nerd fonts
9:45 - ghostty's performance
11:17 - a special accessibility feature?
13:14 - the TWO MOST IMPORTANT FEATURES
14:40 - is ghostty good?

[windowsrefund]

The fact we're talking about things like tabs and support for a hyped purple colorscheme before ever thinking about the license.

[guglielmobartelloni]

Nowdays terminals are like javascript frameworks

[Oggy-WanKenobi]

Please do a video on Wezterm as well. configuring wezterm is such a satisfying experience (it uses lua under the hood). Some killer unique features of Wezterm: 1. configs get reloaded automatically 2. you can assign variables inside your config file (since its basically a lua script) 3. the config auto reloads on system appearance changes so you can programmatically change appearance - I use it for different themes light mode dark mode

[jocdiazm]

Loved the video, but laughed so much at 9:41: "The ligatures are fantastic" -> proceeds to show the "==>" ligature vertically displaced

[jay-cm]

Finally someone makes a video about this mythical terminal emulator.

[EuCaue]

Ghostty looks perfect for me, but I actually have to talk to someone to get the beta? 😨

[zsytssk]

this comment is just for me to practice english.
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so the premise here is...(2:23)
we're gonna poke around a little bit.(2:33)
so stick around to check that out.(2:41)
the ease of configing it's color scheme.(5:25)
I've reloaded my config.(7:33)
is ligatures.(8:39)
this is a really strong suit of ghostty.(9:43)
straight in ghostty.(11:34)
it handles the default stuff that you expect.(12:51)
the promise of this terminal emulator is massive.(15:00)

[CNich]

From the version output it appears to be written in Zig which is super sweet! Rust is great but it’s cool to see a deviation from the common trend.

[VeitLehmann]

This would be my ideal terminal emulator, if I could get my hands on it... Combines the best things of kitty, wezterm, iTerm2, and any GTK terminal. And it runs on Linux and macOS (I use both) and integrates with them perfectly!

[Flackon]

The feature I'd love in a terminal would be app-aware ligatures. Say, I want ligatures on when I'm in Neovim, but off when I'm looking at cargo's progress bar.

[dustsucker]

Okay i dont get the hype. It can rendern images and change themes without restarting the session and what exactly is the New stuff?

[davidam]

I have to say this: your intro is the best!

[Oggy-WanKenobi]

I love how reloading config with a hotkey is considered such a great deal. Coming from wezterm where everything automatically relaods on save! Wezterm FTW!

[Therr]

We definitely need gpu-accelerated terminal emulator with shaders... When we will see terminal with ray tracing and FSR/XeSS? I think that this is by far most wanted feature for terminal emulator

[FoxSeba]

the amount of new people who have joined the discord since lastnight is so funny lol, words def getting put out!

[paulc]

I kinda hate reviews of things that aren’t available to me to test myself.

[marwanaouida]

Am I the only one who is just happy with Gnome terminal?

[fmgjcoppens]

I wouldn't be surprised that at some point the rite of passage for any dev will be writing ones own terminal emulator.

[ascourter]

Nice vid! Thanks for sharing all the goodies of ghostty

[apefu]

the bloom shader makes me really nostalgic. i helped a friend with his summer job once. 2 months in a basement with sunscreen - we looked like we spent all summer at the beach. old computers were more fun.