It’s out!
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Going to test Ghostty a bit further today.
First impression (yesterday) was rather disappointing (each character entered in an an SSH session appears multiple times, making it “unusable” for that purpose), but I still have to modify its configuration, to make it better match what I am used to (and now appreciate more…) in iTerm.
I think there are some issues with the default terminfo settings (See here, Terminfo - Help).
Apart from that, while I appreciate the technical triumph that means creating a multiplatform speed demon terminal emulator (blazing fast on an old 2018 MBP) but I think I prefer iTerm2 as a Swiss army tool: not the sharpest knife but has more bases covered for me).
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Oh, yes, forgot to report back that this fixed it:
I’m also back to iTerm 2. I did not see Ghostty do anything better than iTerm yet and the missing Find functionality is kind of a showstopper for now (even though I’m aware of clumsy workarounds).
I may or may not switch back, need to evaluate the tradeoff between speed (it’s a feature after all) and the plethora of choices that can be configured for iTerm2.
The fact that I use like 10% of the featureset iTerm2 has to offer makes me want to stay with it and explore it moreso before I try out any other terminal. Although I briefly installed Warp and found the UI to be… very unappealing.
This might be a dumb question, but how often does “this terminal is just too slow” actually come up as a problem?
Yes, I get that it’s theoretically a feature. But is the speed of one’s terminal ever actually the bottleneck?
No, it is not at least for my use cases. But one can definitely feel it, and it’s important. Like having a terrible keyboard and mouse connected to your computer makes it feel a cheaper computer. The difference in latency when rendering fonts is an objective measurement, but the difference in responsiveness is a perceived artifact, and to a certain extent things are not what they are, they are what we think or feel they are.
To me, it’s easily noticeable. Launching Terminal.app after tinkering with Ghostty (or, I guess, Kitty or Alacrity) seems a little bit like “what happened to this computer” (iTerm2 holds itself better but I haven’t done any technical benchmarks other than using it and running “ls -lRt” on a huge folder).
Of course I could be back on my merry way with Terminal.app or iTerm2 after some minutes, and that’s ok!
For later this year, do you know if you can buy a backblaze gift code anonymously ( with 30% discount) and gift it to yourself?
I vaguely remember reading about this on reddit as a way for current subscribers to get a discount.
- buy code anonymously ( or make a throw away account ) using discount code.
- Wait for email with code
- Log into main BB account ( that is eligible for the gift code )
- Apply the code.
From backblaze
You can use prepaid codes only for the following account types:
- Accounts that have no billing enabled or accounts that are within 30 days of renewal.
- Accounts that already have an active backup.
- Accounts with a one-year subscription (prepaid codes cannot be used for monthly or two-year plans).
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