dsissitka 2 hours ago

Some Typometer measurements on i3 here:

  # Title                   Min     Max     Avg     SD
  1 xterm 397               3.1     4.0     3.5     0.2
  2 Alacritty 0.15.1        3.6     4.8     4.2     0.2
  3 xfce4-terminal 1.1.4    2.9     6.8     4.4     0.3
  4 Ghostty 1.2.0           11.3    15.5    13.0    0.7
  5 kitty 0.42.2            11.7    21.3    15.8    3.3
https://imgur.com/a/RobYTWY
  • DrStartup an hour ago

    lower is better

    https://github.com/frarees/typometer

    Typometer

    Typometer is a tool to measure and analyze the visual latency of text editors.

    Editor latency is the delay between an input event and a corresponding screen update — in particular, the delay between keystroke and character appearance. While there are many kinds of delays (caret movement, line editing, etc.), typing latency is a major predictor of editor usability.

    Check the article typing with pleasure to learn more about editor latency and its effects on typing performance.

  • dsissitka 2 hours ago

    Bonus VS Code:

      # Title      Min     Max     Avg     SD
  1 VS Code    10.8    19.7    13.0    1.2
jsiepkes an hour ago

> Ghostty 1.3 will continue the focus of making Ghostty the "best existing terminal emulator" by shipping the last remaining major missing features to achieve parity with other popular terminal emulators. Namely, we plan on shipping scrollback search and scrollbars for 1.3, at a minimum.

Are scrollback and scrollbars that hard to implement? Or do people just don't care that much about them that they are only added in 1.3?

I tried using various terminal emulators which don't support scrollback and scrollbars with tmux (which apparently most people do as a substitute). However for me that falls apart as soon as you SSH to a remote host and need to use tmux there as well. Maybe I'm just a console-noob...

nickdichev an hour ago

Nice, I've been running nightly to get access to the cursor shaders. I've found them really helpful, especially when screen sharing.

alberth 3 hours ago

There's a lot of great engineering that goes into Ghostty (not just in the codebase itself, but also in how the project is managed and run).

It's a lot of fun following it, just to gleam best practices from.

Rick76 3 hours ago

It's projects like this that make me feel awe. I'm a full stack developer, but I feel like I don't have the low level knowledge to know all the work that goes into a project like a terminal emulator.

I love the app on my Mac, can't wait to go home and try it out

akagusu 4 hours ago

It look's like a good terminal emulator. The sad part is that on Linux it is Gnome only.

  • sionisrecur 4 hours ago

    What do you mean? It uses Gtk but can be used from other desktop environments.

    • akagusu 3 hours ago

      It uses libadwaita which is a GNOME only library. It will run on others GTK environments but won't match the UI styles.

  • lizardking 3 hours ago

    I'm using it on Arch with Hyperland just fine.

mixmastamyk 4 hours ago

Seems it is in every distro except the debians and fedoras, the ones I use. Also no GUI config. Guess I’ll wait a while.

I tried the app image once, and it looked promising.

Analemma_ 2 hours ago

As someone who spends most of my time remoted in to other machines, it's very hard to give up the deep tmux integration on iTerm 2, but I do cast a wandering gaze at Ghostty now and then. I know some people think tmux is a dead-end so if an alternative ever really gains traction I could be convinced to switch.

wrcwill an hour ago

can you ctrl-f now?

nylonstrung 3 hours ago

Ghostty is both the greatest terminal emulator and Zig product ever made