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by worldmerge 538 days ago
Just downloaded it because of the animation on the site. How did you make that? it's cute.

The terminal is good. I don't have any issues with the stock mac os terminal app but I'll give yours a go for a bit. I can't tell exactly how, but it does feel faster - I'm not sure exactly how it is but it looks like it renders text faster.

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Stock Terminal.app doesn’t do 256 or 24-bit colour, that’s really the big thing that drew me to ghostty.
If the stock Terminal was updated to support nerd fonts, extra colors and horizontal/vertical panes - then would switch back to it in a jiffy.
Lower inout latency can make something feel faster. I haven't measured it but it's possible that's why with ghostty