The community overwhelmingly praises libghostty 1.0 for providing a stable, high-performance C library that simplifies embedding terminal emulation in diverse applications like IDEs and custom TUIs. Users highlight the project's rigorous ABI design and rapid ecosystem growth as key benefits, although some note that specific features like Windows support or advanced configuration UIs remain limited compared to established terminals.
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boon
Emacs Lisp2020–2023
jyp / boon
boon
Ergonomic Command Mode for Emacs
6Distinct people
6Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
385GitHub stars
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What it is
Ergonomic Command Mode for Emacs
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- emacsorphanage/god-mode · linked in 2 of the same discussions
- kungsgeten/ryo-modal · linked in 2 of the same discussions
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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 9:01:12 PM UTC.
Mentions over time
HN mentions by year6 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2020-06-24 12:59:41 UTC to 2023-03-04 03:19:24 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
1 sourcesSRsrcreigh·Nov 25, 2021
If spacemacs or evil seem too inauthentic or complicated, I suggest boon-mode. It's a very simple, modular, minimal modal editing package with verbs and motions.
https://github.com/jyp/boon
In Batteries included with Emacs (2020)