[neobrain]

Funny timing, I moved to Ghostty this week and just today I ran into OOM crashes in Ghostty while developing a terminal UI app. Coincidentally this TUI has a tab bar that looks like this, where UTF8 icons are used for recognizability and activity indicators (using © and € as placeholders here):

    1|Flakes ©    2|Installed ©    3|Store © €    4|Security © €
   ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

This works fine normally, but resizing the terminal would quickly trigger the crash - easy to avoid but still annoying!

I was already preparing myself to file a bug report with the easy repro, but this sounds suspiciously close to what the blog post is describing. Fingers crossed :)

(EDIT: HN filters unicode, booo :( )

[smoyer]

Why would I move to GhosTTY versus the terminal emulator that comes with my OS as it's not clear to me from the documentation?

[neobrain]

I don't think I can do a better overview than https://ghostty.org/docs/about . It's not world-changing but simply a very polished, well-executed terminal.

GPU rendering virtually eliminates typing latency. Most terminals that have it don't support native content like tabs, but Ghostty gets minimal latency without having to compromise on essentials since it uses native toolkits under the hood.

The modern TTY has lots of protocol extensions that allow your CLI tools to do things like display high-resolution images. There's tons of good-quality color themes out-of-the-box (with a built-in browser for preview).

Configuration is highly customizable but the defaults are good enough that you barely need it.

[smoyer]

I wish a couple of those paragraphs were on the home page!

[geon]

I moved because Ghostty feels just like the native terminal but allows me to set the color scheme. I have it set to match the vscode Monokai theme.

No, macos Terminal will not let you use whatever colors you like. It will helpfully adjust the colors you select to increase contrast. And it can't be disabled. It bugged me for years.