ghostty-org/ghostty
👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
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Ghostty Ghostty is a terminal emulator that differentiates itself by being fast, feature-rich, and native. While there are many excellent terminal emulators available, they all force you to choose between speed, features, or native UIs. Ghostty provides all three. libghostty is a cross-platform, zero-dependency C and Zig library for building terminal emulators or utilizing terminal functionality (such as style parsing). Anyone can use libghostty to build a terminal emulator or embed a terminal into their own applications. See Ghostling for a minimal complete project example or the examples directory for smaller examples of using libghostty in C and Zig. For more details, see About Ghostty. See the download page on the Ghostty website. See the documentation on the Ghostty website. If you have any ideas, issues, etc. regarding Ghostty, or would like to contribute to Ghostty through pull requests, please check out our "Contributing to Ghostty" document. Those who would…
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- About
- Download
- Documentation
- Contributing and Developing
- Roadmap and Status
- Standards-Compliant Terminal Emulation
- Competitive Performance
- Rich Windowing Features
- Native Platform Experiences
- Cross-platform libghostty for Embeddable Terminals
- Ghostty-only Terminal Control Sequences
- Crash Reports
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👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
Repository facts
- Owner
- ghostty-org
- Primary language
- Zig
- Stars
- 63,124
- Forks
- 3,810
- Open issues + pull requests
- 256
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2022-03-29T17:38:26.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-11-01T11:09:55.000Z
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