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ghostling

A minimum viable terminal emulator built on top of the libghostty C API. Ex minimo, infinita nascuntur. 👻🐣

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1.2KGitHub stars
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What it is

A minimum viable terminal emulator built on top of the libghostty C API. Ex minimo, infinita nascuntur. 👻🐣

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2026-03-20 22:11:37 UTC to 2026-03-20 23:54:12 UTC.

012026-03-20 22:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-20 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsMar 20, 22:002026-03-20 23:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 20, 23:00

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Mar 20, 22:002026-03-20 22:00:00 UTC2026-03-20 23:00:00 UTC110
Mar 20, 23:002026-03-20 23:00:00 UTC2026-03-21 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Here's the build script that uses: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostling/blob/main/bin2heade... I ran it against a 1x1 pixel GIF: cmake -DINPUT=pixel.gif -DOUTPUT=pixel.h -DARRAY_NAME=pixel_gif -P bin2header.cmake And got this: // Auto-generated from /private/tmp/exp/pixel.gif — do not edit. static const unsigned char pixel_gif[] = { 0x47, 0x49, 0x46, 0x38, 0x39, 0x61, 0x01, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x80, 0x00, 0x00, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x2c, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x02, 0x02, 0x44, 0x01, 0x00, 0x3b };
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