azorius.net

Only says it’s fast on some specific benchmarks against alacrity. Not talking about why alacrity or kitty would not work on Linux/mac while ghostty does.

Sure, it’s interesting that he managed to optimize so many things. But the claims in the picture are unproven.

tun@lemm.ee on 23 Oct 2024 10:33 collapse

Not talking about why alacrity or kitty would not work on Linux/mac while ghostty does.

Does the picture/article claim alacritty or kitty would not work on Linux/mac? Where can I read that?

rostselmasch@lemmygrad.ml on 23 Oct 2024 11:54 collapse

It’s the misleading exclamation mark. If I see this picture, my impression is that kitty works only with issues on Linux

SuperFola@programming.dev on 23 Oct 2024 13:16 next collapse

Also, what does « features » mean? Why does alacrity have none?

tun@lemm.ee on 23 Oct 2024 14:04 collapse

Agree on the misleading table. To make it worse, OP didn’t include the Mitchell’s article link.

Table alone does not paint the complete picture (and marking Alacritty has no features is too absurd). Alacritty lacks features but exclamation would be better suited (instead of cross).

Some of the features Alacritty does not have

ligature
tabs
split
layouts
terminal graphics protocol (at least Kitty)

SuperFola@programming.dev on 23 Oct 2024 07:29 next collapse

Unsure, I am using kitty with a very minimal config on MacOS and it works well. Haven’t had any bugs. Seems more like marketing to me (the image)

Carighan@lemmy.world on 23 Oct 2024 07:31 next collapse

That the guy making the table is pulling things out of their arse, basically.

tun@lemm.ee on 23 Oct 2024 07:53 collapse

Here is the review by a closed beta tester.

hanna.lol/p/ghost-in-the-terminal/

Here is the video where he talks about the optimization done in ghostty

youtu.be/cPaGkEesw20?t=3021&si=ppZK2tbGktJah9cN

Treeniks@lemmy.ml on 23 Oct 2024 08:27 next collapse

They explain it a bit here: mitchellh.com/…/ghostty-and-useful-zig-patterns

Also, calling out the warning signs, my bar for a native platform experience is that the app feels and acts like a purpose-built native app. I don’t think this bar is unreasonable. For example, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that Alacritty is kind of not native because new windows create new processes. Or that Kitty is kind of not native because tabs use a non-native widget. And so on (there are many more examples for each).

So nothing wrong with Kitty on MacOS e.g., but the “feel” is not native. Personally don’t care too much about that, but the author seems to do.

SuperFola@programming.dev on 23 Oct 2024 08:56 collapse

This smells like bullshit because it’s just based on things users do not see (processes) or do not care about (the style used for your tabs).

Treeniks@lemmy.ml on 23 Oct 2024 09:21 collapse

Yeah I agree the table is very odd, but the project looks awesome anyway. Some users may care about things using native widgets when it comes to theming and stuff, though I wouldn’t even know what I’d call “native” on Linux. Is GTK native? Qt?

ericjmorey@programming.dev on 23 Oct 2024 12:26 collapse

He seems to target GTK based on his statement:

“On macOS, the main GUI experience is written in Swift using AppKit and SwiftUI. The tabs are native tabs, the splits are native UI components, multi-window works as you’d expect, etc. On Linux, the GUI experience is GTK using real GTK windows and other widgets.

Features such as error messages are not implemented with a specialized terminal view, we actually use real native UI components. The point is, while the terminal surface and core logic is cross-platform, the user interaction is all purpose-built for each operating system for a true native experience.”

mitchellh.com/…/ghostty-and-useful-zig-patterns

BlueBockser@programming.dev on 24 Oct 2024 17:54 collapse

✅ but I can’t give the competitors too many ✅ so let’s go with ⚠️

tun@lemm.ee on 23 Oct 2024 07:29 next collapse

OP should include the link.

mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-is-coming

ericjmorey@programming.dev on 23 Oct 2024 12:08 collapse

Lemmy still doesn’t let someone post an embedded link and picture. People don’t realize that you have to include the linkin the body of the post which is annoying and intuitive, specially because when creating a new post Lemmy will allow you to fill out both form fields for link and picture but only use one.

[deleted] on 23 Oct 2024 07:55 next collapse

Markaos@lemmy.one on 23 Oct 2024 09:53 next collapse

As @Treeniks@lemmy.ml pointed out, the author considers something as small as spawning a separate process for each window to mean a “non-native experience” (wait till they see how web browsers work)

Templa@beehaw.org on 23 Oct 2024 19:49 collapse

Which retard made that list

There are other ways of disagreeing with people

krimson@lemmy.world on 23 Oct 2024 09:08 next collapse

Weird table. I use Foot which is pretty fucking fast and does everything I need except panes so I might check this one out.

lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works on 23 Oct 2024 10:23 next collapse

Just had a look at Kitty and from what I understand, it’s an emulator, and it’s fast, has ligatures.

Since I rarely use terminal outside of VS Code, i.e. zsh shell on Mac, I don’t quite understand what would I get from it?

Reviews say it’s fast, has low latency between typing and the text appearing on the screen - I’m not seeing latency either way. The text is there, can it get any faster? 😅

ericjmorey@programming.dev on 23 Oct 2024 12:51 next collapse

I think that Hashimoto is using this project to iron out details that are left unaddressed due to convenience for other projects and the very low impact of any single issue Hashimoto has addressed. But much like with Apple projects, Hashimoto intends for the the end product to have greater value than the sum of the parts. Unlike Apple, it will be perfomant cross platform.

I think the only way to evaluate a project like this is to ignore the feature comparison charts and use it to see if it really is better when those details are addressed. I have a feeling that many people will agree and most will shrug their shoulders and not give it a second look if they even gave it a first one.

I’ll be trying Ghostty out soon. I hope it’s great. But I’m not expecting to be blown away.

desmosthenes@lemmy.world on 23 Oct 2024 15:07 next collapse

kitty should be 4 check marks

key@lemmy.keychat.org on 23 Oct 2024 15:42 next collapse

Seems the pitch is just that it supports Apple specific bells and whistles like the emoji bar and beyond that has the stuff other terminals have. I use tilda and use that because it has a critical core feature I haven’t seen in other terminals: it appears full screen over all other windows with a keypress and disappears the same way. Since I use terminal heavily I don’t want to treat it as just another window but as a first class experience which tilda allows. I don’t really get why you’d make yet another terminal without some fundamental core functionality difference like that.

min_fapper@programming.dev on 23 Oct 2024 20:39 next collapse

Yakuake also has that

ericjmorey@programming.dev on 24 Oct 2024 14:07 collapse

Good news from September:

Introducing the Ghostty “Quick Terminal” feature: a terminal that drops-down based on a global keybind (also sometimes known as a Doom or Quake-style terminal). This was one of Ghostty’s most requested features.

x.com/mitchellh/status/1840449807095394391

Kissaki@programming.dev on 23 Oct 2024 16:11 next collapse

Has features ✅

calcopiritus@lemmy.world on 23 Oct 2024 19:14 next collapse

Damn. Alacritty has no features?

fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works on 23 Oct 2024 23:13 collapse

Lmao. It is more barebones but yeah “feature: none” is a real jab

ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 23 Oct 2024 20:41 next collapse

I use alacritty on Linux every day, hell I didn’t even realize it ran under Windows

nik9000@programming.dev on 23 Oct 2024 22:27 next collapse

I’m late to this, but could a kind soul explain what I’m missing out on by using urxvt? I settled on it years ago and haven’t changed anything.

neutronst4r@beehaw.org on 31 Oct 2024 15:42 collapse

Well, since I hate myself, I will keep using st.