ghostty-org/ghostty
Why developers are switching from Alacritty and iTerm to Ghostty
HashiCorp's founder spent two years building a blazing-fast terminal emulator.
Legacy terminal emulators suffer from high input lag and bloated memory footprints.
Developers spend all day in the terminal, yet most apps either lag during heavy output or lack basic features like font ligatures and native tabs.
Written in Zig with native Metal and OpenGL shaders for ultra-fast rendering.
Built from scratch in Zig, Ghostty offloads text rasterization directly to the GPU, hitting 120 frames per second with near-zero latency.
Native macOS and Linux UI eliminates ugly cross-platform compromises.
Instead of using webviews, Ghostty wraps its Zig engine in native macOS AppKit and Linux GTK4, giving you authentic system menus, tabs, and split panes.
Display inline images and graphs directly in your shell via Kitty protocol.
With native Kitty graphics protocol support, tools like neovim, yazi, and python scripts can render inline images and charts directly inside your terminal pane.
Over 30,000 stars on GitHub. Open-source under MIT license.
Backed by Mitchell Hashimoto's craftsmanship, Ghostty is setting a new performance benchmark for developer terminal workflows.