28-DEC-2024

1514 - ui

As everyone else seems to be doing at TOW, I’m trying out the ghostty terminal emulator; and I have to say, the hype seems pretty reasonable. Coming from iTerm2, it definitely ‘feels’ faster. I’m not sure if that’s just placebo, but it feels like it renders at a higher framerate.

The relevance to this project comes down to protocol wrt images-in-the-terminal. ghostty uses the kitty protocol, iTerm2 uses it’s own. Barring significant issues, I’m already thinking ghostty might win out in at least the near term. I do want to investigate alacritty for this as well. Depending on how I go, the choice of protocol will be made. I like iTerm, I’ve been a longterm user, but the fact that ghostty is already well integrated with nix from the repo up is very appealing.