HashiCorp Cofounder Unveils Ghostty, a Linux Terminal App
Ghostty is a new Linux terminal app that's fast, feature-rich, and offers a platform-native GUI while remaining cross-platform.
You probably didn't realize that you needed a new terminal app. Or maybe you don't, but you're curious anyway. And given how central the terminal is to Linux intermediate and power users, having the right one can really make a difference.
Mitchell Hashimoto (the co-founder of HashiCorp) understands this and set out to create a new Linux terminal app. This new app is called Ghostty and was written in Zig. The Linux version uses GTK4/libadwaita and the macOS version is written in Swift and uses AppKit and SwiftUI.
The first stable release of Ghostty includes features like tabs, multiple windows, panes, GPU-accelerated rendering, theming, standard keyboard shortcuts, working directory reporting, programmatic italics, xterm compatibility, custom shader support, ligature and variable font support, grapheme clustering, Kitty graphics protocol, and zero configuration to start using the app.
Ghostty can be installed on Arch Linux (from the Extra packages), but for those using Ubuntu-based distributions, it has to be compiled from source. Hopefully, that will change soon and Hashimoto will release either an official .deb, .rpm, Flatpak, or Snap package.
You can download the source from the official Ghostty Github repository.
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