i recently got invited to the beta for rex. i ask here because it’s built on libghostty, which is written in zig. i’m not gonna lie at first i was sitting there wondering what the difference was, for me, between this and me running a bunch of tmux sessions. don’t get me wrong. i understand how state works on terminal splitting and how tmux renders the split v an actual second terminal. though the biggest con for me was the gpu acceleration as i really don’t need animations and etra bs in my terminal panes like jumping cursors, or to use my vram to do it. this is why i’ve stuck to using straight tty or terminal (on mac). also not very fond of tailscale. however, i feel like my opinion will change when the iOS app drops. someone rexpill me.
The team behind ghostty have shown the ability to create a great product, and spawn an entire ecosystem of awesome projects that benefit from using libghostty-vt as its core.
If you don’t like the designs that Rex uses, good news is that the core protocol is open, and someone is probably hacking together a linux client with a less busy ui. This is major a benefit of well defined open standards.
From what I can gather, they intend to open up the option to host a Rex server. If that’s the case, it means any investment into this protocol isn’t dependent on superlogical as a company.
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yeah, i mean i agree. i greatly appreciate mitchell hashimoto and his team, i have faith.