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Mitchell Hashimoto co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant, Terraform, and Vault, tools that basically defined modern infrastructure. After leaving the company in 2023, he went back to building for the joy of it and shipped Ghostty, a terminal emulator written in Zig that refuses to make you choose between speed, features, and native UI. Most terminals force you to pick two. Ghostty gives you all three. The macOS app is built in Swift with AppKit and SwiftUI; the Linux version uses GTK4. Both share a core library (libghostty) that handles terminal emulation, font rendering, and GPU acceleration. Mitchell jokes that Ghostty is "70% a font rendering engine and 30% a terminal emulator," as a designer, I approve.
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Fast, feature-rich, and x-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI & GPU acceleration
Ghostty is a terminal emulator that differentiates itself by being fast, feature-rich, and native. While there are many excellent terminal emulators available, they all force you to choose between speed, features, or native UIs. Ghostty provides all three.
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