Ghostty
A fast terminal emulator with GPU acceleration and native UI
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At a glance
- Primary use case
- A fast terminal emulator with GPU acceleration and native UI
- Best for
- Developer Tools — Terminal, CLI Tool
- Stack
- GTK, Metal, swift, Zig
- License
- MIT
- Maintenance
- 1 week ago
- Access
- Open source · Self-hosted
- Documentation path
- https://ghostty.org/docs
About this tool
Ghostty is a fast and feature-rich terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration. It provides a highly performant experience while integrating deeply with native system features on macOS and Linux.
Repository
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MIT
1 week ago
Features
- Leverages GPU acceleration for high performance and low latency.
- Uses native UI components to integrate with the desktop environment.
- Offers libghostty as a library for embedding terminals into apps.
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