Launching today
JusTTY
A simple native macOS terminal built on Swift and libghostty
41 followers
A simple native macOS terminal built on Swift and libghostty
41 followers
A simple native macOS terminal built with Swift and libghostty. Minimal be design - suited for everyday use, just not packed with the bells and whistles power users expect.
Thanks for sharing. What would you say are the "selling points" of this terminal emulator?
@maciej_baron The main selling points are performance, resource usage and minimal bloat. The app gives you just the basics of the terminal (visual control with themes and colorschemes and window control with tabs, starting location and padding). I honestly think that the rest should be added with software, for example if you want multiplexing you can always use tmux but not everyone need that. Also, making it native removes the overhead of additional frameworks and runtimes (e.g. Electron), which can reduce resource usage and improve performance.
Native macOS apps built with libghostty are exactly what I've been hoping someone would ship. One thing that would make me switch from iTerm2 full time: support for per-pane scrollback buffers with the ability to detach a pane into its own window. Would be great for keeping long-running logs handy while working in another session.
Love seeing more native macOS dev tools built with Swift! Terminal performance makes or breaks the daily workflow.
@zeo81 Yeah as a dev terminal performance is very important. I also hate that many terminal apps add as many features as possible without thinking of how it would impact the performance or resource cost of it. Also native is always best in my opinion.
@0x96f “Also native is always best in my opinion”， I think so.