I’ve been a Terminal user for a long time until recently when AI took off and multiple terminals is a new norm. I’ve been then switched to iTerm2 and started to use it as my daily driver. Soon enough I found myself frustrated with it too. Feels bloated, settings are like a deep forest. Each time I want to adjust something took me minutes to find a setting. Half of the time I ended up googling how to do stuff. Then I though - why can’t I build an alternative?
Here is my minimalistic and opinionated terminal emulator I built for my humble use of coding CLIs - mTerm — a native macOS terminal. I’ve been using it myself for a few weeks now and smoothed out few bumps here and there. If you are a fun of a good terminal - give it a try. Looking for a feedback and suggestions.
As rob says, it would be good to get an idea of why one might use this over ghostty and what problem you think this solves.
Many users in this space are also very twitchy about how much vibe-coding has been used. It’s not inherently problematic to use AI to assist with coding, but without a statement about the extent to which this was the case it’s hard to allay any concerns. In the past five days you have tagged releases 0.8.0, 0.9.0, 0.10.0, 0.11.0, 0.11.1, 1.0.0. That is an insane release cycle that make me wary that 1.0.0 really is ready for release. This is especially true as there precisely zero issues that have been opened or closed.
All of this is to say that whilst this may be the start of an excellent contender to the existing terminal emulators, you might want to think about how you market it and what might make people take it seriously.