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đŸ‘» Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

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What it is

đŸ‘» Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

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Where it is used

  • Ghostty Terminal — Ghostty Terminal uses Ghostty’s WebAssembly terminal engine to power the in-editor terminal. It renders the terminal in a VS Code Webview and hooks to a real shell process. Source
  • Ghost Town — Ghost Town uses Ghostty’s VT100 parser, compiled to WebAssembly, to power its web-based terminal emulator. This provides the terminal parsing engine in the browser. Source

What people are saying

I'm an AI critic, but I use AI every day. In fact, I am an AI researcher and work on making models more capable and powerful (probably where a lot of my criticism stems from).


godelski used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:49:33 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month128 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2024-12-26 20:41:06 UTC to 2026-10-28 03:23:47 UTC.

051015202024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 1 submissions, 13 commentsDec 20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 3 submissions, 5 comments2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 4 submissions, 6 comments2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 0 submissions, 13 comments2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsNov 20252025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 19 mentions; 4 submissions, 15 comments2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 4 submissions, 8 comments2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 1 submissions, 11 comments2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 1 submissions, 6 commentsOct 2026

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Dec 20242024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14113
Jan 20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC835
Feb 20252025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20252025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20252025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC211
May 20252025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jun 20252025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC321
Jul 20252025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20252025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC1046
Sep 20252025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC13013
Oct 20252025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC707
Nov 20252025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Dec 20252025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
Jan 20262026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC19415
Feb 20262026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC1248
Mar 20262026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC12111
Apr 20262026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC101
May 20262026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC312
Jun 20262026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Jul 20262026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC303
Aug 20262026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC312
Sep 20262026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 20262026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC716

What Hacker News says

7 sources
Aurornis·Oct 31, 2025
Ghostty is an interesting project, but it’s not usable yet for those of us who use scrollback history search until they ship that feature https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/189 The growing popularity of ghostty has made me realize a lot of people don’t use scroll back history search. I use it frequently to save time and avoid having to rerun time intensive tasks to pipe them through grep or tee everything to a file.
In Warp Terminal changes pricing model
JdeBP·Oct 1, 2025
Those two are already balanced by Zutty and Rio. So let's have a look around at some of the emulators that make using the GPU a marketing point. DarkTile (https://github.com/liamg/darktile) accepts TTF and OTF, so presumably if you can get your bitmap font of choice converted into those formats you are alright. GhosTTY (https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty) gained proper bitmap font support just last month, the issues list says, but is reliant upon what FreeType and CoreText can handle. It has an open issue discussing those vis-a-vis bitmap fonts. Trap2 (https://github.com/tale/trap2) likewise relies upon FreeType. Contour (https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour) at least appears to have bitmap font support. Alacritty, WezTerm, and Kitty get a lot of mentions in the issues list.
In Rio Terminal: A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator

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