⚙️ Ghostty
After nearly two years of development and private beta testing1, I'm excited to share that Ghostty 1.0 will be publicly released in December 2024 as an open-source project under the MIT license.
In short, Ghostty 1.0 aims to be the best drop-in replacement for your current terminal emulator on macOS and Linux. Ghostty will be fast, feature-rich, and have a platform-native GUI while being the most standards-compliant terminal emulator available.
This is the first I've heard of this terminal replacement project and I'm looking forward to trying it out when it debuts. I've been dissatisfied with the native macOS terminal for a while, and I'm not totally sold on iTerm 2, although I expect to be putting it through its paces for the next month or so at least.
I'm also curious to see how Ghostty stores its settings data. Will it be a typical mac plist file like iTerm2 or will it use javascript, toml, or something similar? The fact that's it is a mac and linux project leads me to guess that it probably doesn't use a plist.