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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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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:01:16 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

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zimpenfish·Dec 3, 2025
I'm hoping they'll get around to supporting command-number for switching between windows[0]. command-` is fine but clunky as hell when you have more than three or four windows. Without command-number, I'm still stuck using iTerm2 as my daily driver. (It'd be nice if it supported other standard macOS UI conventions[1] too) [0] https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/8131 [1] https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues?q=is%3Aissue%2...
In Ghostty is now non-profit
mitchellh·Dec 1, 2025
Holy shit Kyle. I had no idea you were working on this. This is amazing. Your patch is also very instructive on what you need me to do for you to make this more reasonable. I'm guessing that performance of this relative to xterm right now isn't... the best, mainly because the way you're grabbing the viewport seems expensive. I'm curious though if you did any benchmarks? One thing you probably really want to expose is the new RenderState API: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/src/termina... You're doing per row line grabbing currently which is probably pretty slow. The RenderState API is stateful and produces the state necessary to create a high-performance, delta update renderer. It's what our production GPU renderers are now built on (but the API itself is compatible with any kind of renderer). It'd be better for you. Afte
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r all that, I'm very curious even at this rudimentary level what the performance on various benchmarks look like compared to xterm.js. Excellent work!
In Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility

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