Ghostty

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “I consider Ghostty the best video terminal emulator that I have used”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-07-10

• “now we can cmd+f to search ghostty output as of the most recent version”

  MIXED · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-07-10

• “I consider Ghostty the best video terminal emulator that I have used. For now, I have not encountered any noticeable bug yet, even if I spend a lot of time using it.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-07-10

• “ghostty to be more performant and aesthetically pleasing and haven't missed anything”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-07-10

• “switch out ghostty for the time being as it's misbehaving. Laptop hot to the touch even after idling overnight.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-07-09

• “Ghostty crashes or something else happens and poof your entire work layout is gone and needs to be re-created”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-07-08

• “Ghostty is the only one that has proper search/context menus, tabs, and scroll bars”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-22

• “the time from pressing a key to showing on-screen is much lower with ghostty”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-22

• “I went from Alacritty to Ghostty for ligatures and some other small goodies.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-22

• “ghostty was good for being a Very Good terminal experience with almost no config required”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-22

• “I was so disappointed that Ghostty doesn't properly render Khmer text”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-09

• “ghostty starts lagging super hard vs iterm. i've never had a problem with iterm render speed, but iterm never starts lagging when my box is fully maxed out and ghostty does regularly. i try it every few years and ive never seen any improvement.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-08

• “Everything we've measured so far firmly places Ghostty in the "fast" camp”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-08

• “ghostty isn't unimaginably fast but it's faster than iTerm 2 which is plenty”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-08

• “ghostty + Mac OS gives me all the organization I need for multi-agenting”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-05

• “you could probably shave off 20 MB from Ghostty because it is distributed as universal binary (does that even make sense in 2026)”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-15

• “Ghostty/your-work has a positive impact on my life and gives a hope by being a relaible tool I rely on”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-04-28

• “I'm fine with iTerm2 and Ghostty, but I somehow still feel this void where I wish the terminal was a little more abstract and rich”

  LUKEWARM · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-28

• “ghostty for your CLI. I've done like 99% of my work in the past month just in ghostty + CC.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-22

• “the only glitch was some key binding collision with ghostty/aerospace”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-04-13

• “dear ghostty why do you make it so easy to move folders, it isn't the best of features and can lead to some honest errors”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-10

• “have a quick command that spins up a worktree on a repo with my ghostty splits as I like them”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-08

• “It's backed by ghostty's Metal renderer which draws its own opaque background, so simply slapping .glassEffect() on it doesn't work”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-12

• “absolutely love it. Most of my day lives in terminals, and Ghostty just feels fast, clean, and out of the way in the best possible sense”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-01

• “Ghostty broke SSH to nearly all my servers by having an odd custom terminfo thing or something”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-03-01