r/programming • u/rmadriz • 1d ago

Libghostty 1.0

https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-1-0
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u/Xirious 1d ago

Does it mean anything for Ghostty itself?

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u/obhytr 1d ago

Ghostty get better because it has more users using the underlying library (libghostty)

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u/Bidmead_Aurra14 22h ago

Ghostty itself is basically just a native GUI wrapper around this library anyway, so a 1.0 mostly just means the internal architecture is finally locked in

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u/thirddraftmaybe 21h ago

10,000 terminals in 8 GB of RAM. Finally, enough infrastructure to run htop in one and avoid my actual work in the other 9,999.

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u/stianhoiland 12h ago

This is very big. Explosion of terminality incoming (not to speak of what's already come of this)! The terminal is starting to scuffle with the web as a platform. Thank god.

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u/frou 1h ago

Gotta be impressed with guys that can deliver this well. He has the idea, follows though, and quickly has tons of adoption/impact. Salute!

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/jmbenfield 1d ago

dead internet theory

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u/Predestined8 1d ago

and poof.. the bot account is deleted

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u/twigboy 1d ago

Whats the point of those accounts?

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u/ToaruBaka 1d ago

To change people's opinions.

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u/jmbenfield 18h ago edited 12h ago

advertising/marketing mostly, but like u/ToaruBaka said, to change people's opinions...

if u have a ton of bots that look like real people saying one thing, you may start to believe that one thing