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Ghostty 1.0 is Coming (programming.dev)
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[–] SuperFola@programming.dev 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This smells like bullshit because it’s just based on things users do not see (processes) or do not care about (the style used for your tabs).

[–] Treeniks@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I agree the table is very odd, but the project looks awesome anyway. Some users may care about things using native widgets when it comes to theming and stuff, though I wouldn't even know what I'd call "native" on Linux. Is GTK native? Qt?

[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

He seems to target GTK based on his statement:

"On macOS, the main GUI experience is written in Swift using AppKit and SwiftUI. The tabs are native tabs, the splits are native UI components, multi-window works as you'd expect, etc. On Linux, the GUI experience is GTK using real GTK windows and other widgets.

Features such as error messages are not implemented with a specialized terminal view, we actually use real native UI components. The point is, while the terminal surface and core logic is cross-platform, the user interaction is all purpose-built for each operating system for a true native experience."

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-and-useful-zig-patterns