• petey@aussie.zone
      36·
      1 month ago

      Yeah, I’d say Kitty and Alacritty work pretty well on Linux. Makes this comparison table seem like bs

    • Treeniks@lemmy.ml
      12·
      1 month ago

      They explain it a bit here: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-and-useful-zig-patterns

      Also, calling out the warning signs, my bar for a native platform experience is that the app feels and acts like a purpose-built native app. I don’t think this bar is unreasonable. For example, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that Alacritty is kind of not native because new windows create new processes. Or that Kitty is kind of not native because tabs use a non-native widget. And so on (there are many more examples for each).

      So nothing wrong with Kitty on MacOS e.g., but the “feel” is not native. Personally don’t care too much about that, but the author seems to do.

      • SuperFola@programming.devEnglish
        14·
        1 month ago

        This smells like bullshit because it’s just based on things users do not see (processes) or do not care about (the style used for your tabs).

        • Treeniks@lemmy.ml
          5·
          1 month ago

          Yeah I agree the table is very odd, but the project looks awesome anyway. Some users may care about things using native widgets when it comes to theming and stuff, though I wouldn’t even know what I’d call “native” on Linux. Is GTK native? Qt?

          • ericjmorey@programming.dev
            1·
            1 month ago

            He seems to target GTK based on his statement:

            "On macOS, the main GUI experience is written in Swift using AppKit and SwiftUI. The tabs are native tabs, the splits are native UI components, multi-window works as you’d expect, etc. On Linux, the GUI experience is GTK using real GTK windows and other widgets.

            Features such as error messages are not implemented with a specialized terminal view, we actually use real native UI components. The point is, while the terminal surface and core logic is cross-platform, the user interaction is all purpose-built for each operating system for a true native experience."

            https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-and-useful-zig-patterns

    • SuperFola@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      Unsure, I am using kitty with a very minimal config on MacOS and it works well. Haven’t had any bugs. Seems more like marketing to me (the image)

      • SuperFola@programming.devEnglish
        12·
        1 month ago

        Kitty is mentioned once in the article and that’s it. Doesn’t even mention its downside and how ghostty is so much better according to them.

        It’s a great project and all, but I’d love if people could stop stomping on others work just to appear better.

          • SuperFola@programming.devEnglish
            3·
            1 month ago

            Only says it’s fast on some specific benchmarks against alacrity. Not talking about why alacrity or kitty would not work on Linux/mac while ghostty does.

            Sure, it’s interesting that he managed to optimize so many things. But the claims in the picture are unproven.

            • tun@lemm.ee
              1·
              1 month ago

              Not talking about why alacrity or kitty would not work on Linux/mac while ghostty does.

              Does the picture/article claim alacritty or kitty would not work on Linux/mac? Where can I read that?

              • Soviet Pigeon@lemmygrad.ml
                2·
                1 month ago

                It’s the misleading exclamation mark. If I see this picture, my impression is that kitty works only with issues on Linux

                • tun@lemm.ee
                  1·
                  1 month ago

                  Agree on the misleading table. To make it worse, OP didn’t include the Mitchell’s article link.

                  Table alone does not paint the complete picture (and marking Alacritty has no features is too absurd). Alacritty lacks features but exclamation would be better suited (instead of cross).

                  Some of the features Alacritty does not have

                  • ligature
                  • tabs
                  • split
                  • layouts
                  • terminal graphics protocol (at least Kitty)
  • key@lemmy.keychat.orgEnglish
    8·
    1 month ago

    Seems the pitch is just that it supports Apple specific bells and whistles like the emoji bar and beyond that has the stuff other terminals have. I use tilda and use that because it has a critical core feature I haven’t seen in other terminals: it appears full screen over all other windows with a keypress and disappears the same way. Since I use terminal heavily I don’t want to treat it as just another window but as a first class experience which tilda allows. I don’t really get why you’d make yet another terminal without some fundamental core functionality difference like that.

    • ericjmorey@programming.dev
      2·
      1 month ago

      Lemmy still doesn’t let someone post an embedded link and picture. People don’t realize that you have to include the linkin the body of the post which is annoying and intuitive, specially because when creating a new post Lemmy will allow you to fill out both form fields for link and picture but only use one.

  • krimson@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 month ago

    Weird table. I use Foot which is pretty fucking fast and does everything I need except panes so I might check this one out.

  • lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works
    42·
    1 month ago

    Just had a look at Kitty and from what I understand, it’s an emulator, and it’s fast, has ligatures.

    Since I rarely use terminal outside of VS Code, i.e. zsh shell on Mac, I don’t quite understand what would I get from it?

    Reviews say it’s fast, has low latency between typing and the text appearing on the screen - I’m not seeing latency either way. The text is there, can it get any faster? 😅

  • ericjmorey@programming.dev
    21·
    1 month ago

    I think that Hashimoto is using this project to iron out details that are left unaddressed due to convenience for other projects and the very low impact of any single issue Hashimoto has addressed. But much like with Apple projects, Hashimoto intends for the the end product to have greater value than the sum of the parts. Unlike Apple, it will be perfomant cross platform.

    I think the only way to evaluate a project like this is to ignore the feature comparison charts and use it to see if it really is better when those details are addressed. I have a feeling that many people will agree and most will shrug their shoulders and not give it a second look if they even gave it a first one.

    I’ll be trying Ghostty out soon. I hope it’s great. But I’m not expecting to be blown away.

  • nik9000@programming.dev
    1·
    1 month ago

    I’m late to this, but could a kind soul explain what I’m missing out on by using urxvt? I settled on it years ago and haven’t changed anything.

    • Markaos@lemmy.one
      7·
      1 month ago

      As @Treeniks@lemmy.ml pointed out, the author considers something as small as spawning a separate process for each window to mean a “non-native experience” (wait till they see how web browsers work)