Rockstar Developer Builds New Terminal

[@eliasp.2759]

Damn that webcam frame is too small just noticed it at the end 😅

[@codetothemoon]

thanks, really happy someone wants to see more of my face. Very reassuring after a realization that videos without my face tend to do better 🙃

[@eliasp.2759]

@ I’m not a content creator so I can’t really tell but as a viewer I feel like 99% of the views will come from the subject you tackle and the title/thumbnail. I think most people want to see new tools and trends like this. Anyways what matters is doing what you want and being proud of what you publish.

[@lMINERl]

it would be nice if it moves like old CRT dvd logo

[@AbhinavKulshreshtha]

I actually like this. Your face and expression are visible, and still the content has majority of the screen. Another channel I like similar to yours, recently decided to show his split keyboard instead of actual content.

[@foobar3]

@@codetothemoon someone that hates your face here, keep it as small as possible.

[@b0nyb0y31]

For us oldies, that undescriptive "quick mode" is actually a "Quake mode" since that was how a terminal in Quake game was portrayed. As it was quite popular, many other terminals (even Windows Terminal) support this mode. Ghostty should have adopted a well known name instead of inventing a dull new name.

[@marcusrehn6915]

Image previews in the terminal is nice, other than that, I just want my terminal to run Tmux and NeoVim.

[@codetothemoon]

I think many will share this sentiment. Personally I have a slight preference for doing tabs/splitting in the terminal instead of the shell, but that’s just personal preference, and not without its downsides.

[@newtonchutney]

I've got to use the windows terminal for work.. 🥲 And I use zellij for panes when I work on prod servers as I've got to authenticate with cyberark

[@p0xygen]

@@marcusrehn6915 Image rendering is not exclusive to Ghostty though. Kitty, Alacritty and WezTerm for example support it just as well, among others.

[@marcusrehn6915]

@@codetothemoon I do see the appeal, for me it comes down to having things behave in the same way wherever I am working. Regardless of Mac or Linux 😃

[@coencoppens]

I really like the down to earth approach you took. And thanks for introducing me to the term Shiny object syndrome!

[@harinramesh3468]

Finally found a honest review on ghosty.

[@codetothemoon]

Thanks, glad you liked it!

[@LuisCassih]

That's nice. I'm so used to Kitty+Tmux+neovim that I have no real reason to use another setup, but I wish the best for all new software. The more open source, the better.

[@rhysmuir]

@3:40 If you click ghostty-> settings it will open up the config file. Then ghostty-> “reload config “ to apply them without restarting the app

[@MrMaxiePL]

"Rockstar Developer", the most important information?

[@codetothemoon]

It feels better to use a terminal created by someone with some street cred!

[@nerdalytics]

Tried it out, but I stick with Warp. I heard the Changelog Podcast with Mitchel where he talked about UI or Terminal features and his aim was Terminal features. Warp has the better UI features and those I love so much. Ghostty is indeed faster than Warp as much as I tested - but to me, some of the UI features a killer features I don't wanna miss. I'll revisit Ghostty in a while from now for sure.

[@codetothemoon]

My initial take is pretty much in line with yours. Leaning toward sticking with Warp due to all the fancy features - AI, agent mode, workflows, etc.

[@gregory_zaika]

I have a dream that one day we, men, will be able to say that we like something because it looks pretty, without calling it “UI features”🙃

[@striderstache99]

I’m not trying to login to my terminal so Warp is a no-go for me

[@Kiaulen]

Warp actually removed the login requirement. But I'll also stick with Warp. Being able to copy command/output/both and sticky prompt are huge for me.

[@theherk]

Still opt-out telemetry and not FOSS.

[@sparkodesparko2567]

I believe that you _can_ use a fairly standard config location of ~/.config/ghostty/config on macOS - if you want to.

[@codetothemoon]

May try this, was kind of confused about the default location

[@JSiuDev]

I switched from iTerm2 to ghostty mainly because of the "goto_split"/"new_split" key binding. And also the allowing multiple key bind for the same function.

[@doresearchstopwhining]

This software was written by a guy who's already got a billion dollar exit. Sitting on piles of cash, dude decided to spend his time building a terminal emulator. What a total gangsta is all I have to say.

[@anonymousalexander6005]

I found it slower than even Windows Terminal with flickers and high memory usage, does anyone know what would could this? Maybe I’m just expecting too much out of a hobby project whatever

[@erlangparasu6339]

tried Ghostty, but i feel Kitty is more fast when typing on it

[@codetothemoon]

Ah interesting, maybe I’ll give kitty a try

[@AbhinavKulshreshtha]

I love kitty because of its ssh and container extensions. And its custom image protocol is years ahead of sixal protocol

[@kahnzo]

can someone please run Casey Muratori's 1G file test on a variety of terminals

[@codetothemoon]

performance benchmark comparison would be useful!

[@p0xygen]

The webcam could be a bit bigger, also the rounding is kind of weird? Like it's not a perfect circle, kind of triggering my OCD hahaha

[@codetothemoon]

Thanks for the feedback! I’ve made it too big before so it sounds like I went too far in the other direction. In any case I am relieved that people want to see my face 🙃

[@Michaeljamieson10]

oo images in github pr, wish there was a chatgpt intergration like iterm

[@kahnzo]

I want a terminal that flies... Tsetstty

[@codetothemoon]

I still don't understand why someone hasn't created a Terminal named "Airport"

[@seandougherty3022]

I come from a damaged generation where all I hear is "goatse". great video; I have been waffling on trying something new...been an interm2 user for what feels like a lifetime and while things like kitty and wez were nice, they never stuck. maybe ghostty will give iterm a run for its money.

[@codetothemoon]

sigh, i am from the same generation. didn't see it before but now I can't unsee 😭 glad you liked the video though 😎

[@PaulSebastianM]

This seems like a clear Kitty clone.

[@codetothemoon]

My understanding is that has a superset of Kitty's features, but I can't confirm as I haven't used Kitty

[@kerty-]

​@@codetothemoon I don't think Ghostty has Kitty's remote control functionality.

[@chopeda5822]

Seems like you could just use a window manager and a normal terminal like has been available for 10 years already on Linux. I don't understand the commitment to mac

[@codetothemoon]

Can’t speak for others but I personally don’t have an emotional attachment to the platform, I mainly use it for the Messages text integration with iPhone. Also Final Cut Pro. If not for those things I’d probably be using Linux

[@chopeda5822]

@codetothemoon I have emotional reputation to all operating system with differing intensities. I really hope the recent independent OS movement ultimately gets us free from this mess. Not welding together the DE/WM/GUI system with the underlying os is a big advantage of *nix systems visavi experimentation. I've never used those features or programmes but I have tried kde-connect which was super slick for phone pc integration.

[@Cm0nd00d]

im super surprised you use warp. i love that its built in Rust but everything else is corporate. if you dont pay for the product its because you are the product

[@somu8889]

I thought developer at Rockstar games..

[@hamm8934]

I just dont see where this fits in the current market. If i want speed, alacritty is hella fast. If i want feature richness, nothing is topping wezterm with its lua api. If i want a lil of everything, kitty is solid. To me, this just feels interesting because tech influencers are doing ads or are helping out the dev that made it. Really doesnt interest me 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@cariyaputta]

i'll stick with wezterm for now

[@tristen_grant]

Nothing special.

[@codetothemoon]

My thoughts as well. Kind of. Found myself using it today instead of Warp.

[@moonskined]

I think it's all hype... All other terminal emulators are just as good.

[@Montegasppa]

Yet another Kitty clone… all quiet on the Western front. #hype

[@codetothemoon]

I haven't actually used kitty, but I believe it aims to be more feature rich? Not entirely sure.

[@Montegasppa]

@@codetothemoon I’ve been using Kitty for a while, and I have tested every new terminal that pops up - I’m kinda hungry for a new terminal. I didn’t found anything that justifies replacing Kitty by Ghostty yet though. The only terminal I’ve found that MIGHT become better enough than Kitty to make me replace it is WezTerm, but it still have some very annoying issues.

[@khanra17]

Overhyped

[@codetothemoon]

Maybe. But a great terminal nonetheless.

[@ИванРагозин-я8я]

This terminal is total crap

[@JohnPywtorak]

Grr! Mac users, you’re 1%, like a mouse in the wilderness, is it really hype? Well nice for you, but useless for those not using a Mac or Linux.

[@codetothemoon]

Mouse in the wilderness?

[@JohnPywtorak]

@codetothemoon thanks for the reply. If the mouse made a noise, does anyone really hear it? The excitement over ghostty is like that. Unfortunately the excitement is an arguably small echo chamber. It doesn’t get mentioned up front how limited the possible users are and lack of cross platform support. I want to use it or try it, love the terminal. There are many terminal power users not on Mac or Linux.