Terminal emulator ghostty-1.0 released

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After 2 years of development and a private beta Mitchell Hashimoto released Ghostty-1.0. https://ghostty.org/

More details in Ghostty: Reflecting on Reaching 1.0 – Mitchell Hashimoto

Hacker News discussion Ghostty 1.0 | Hacker News

To increase its visibility and popularity Zig needs “killer apps”. IMHO, tiger-beetle, bun and now ghostty are such killers apps.

As a contributor to the ghostty project (issues, PRs) I am very impressed with both the ghostty’s development process and the quality and stability of the result. Ghostty has been my daily driver for at least the whole year.

–Leo

EDIT: corrected links

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I just downloaded and begun playing around with Ghotty as a replacement for iTerm2 on my MacBook. I was glad to read in Hashimoto’s blog that Zig was a great developer experience. More testimonials like these will only improve Zig’s reputation!

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Cannot wait for stable BSD builds

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I didn’t get into the beta until ~6 months ago, but it has been my daily driver since then. It really is top-tier, fits right in among Alacritty, kitty, WezTerm, etc.

I totally agree though, making great software with Zig is what will ensure its continued success. The language isn’t even 1.0 and it has already produced some industry-changing software like Bun, TigerBeetle, and others,now including Ghostty.

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I’m really curious about libghostty - the idea of having a terminal as a crossplatform, featureful library you can add to your project is intriguing

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