
iTerm2
Warp Terminal
Tabby.sh
cmux
Kitty terminal
Termux
Windows Terminal
A fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator

XAMPP
Laragon
MAMP
Laravel Herd
ServBay
Free, open-source XAMPP alternative for Windows

Which is more popular?
Based on our record, Ghostty seems to be more popular. It has been mentioned 33 times since March 2021.
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DevStackBox is a free, open-source (MIT) alternative to XAMPP for Windows 10 and 11. One installer sets up Apache 2.4.65, PHP 8.3.31, MySQL 8.4.11 LTS and phpMyAdmin 5.2.2, so you get a working localhost without stitching together separate downloads. Need another PHP version? Download PHP 8.1,...
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Recommendations tracked on public social media and blogs since March 2021.


Ghostty, the terminal emulator by Mitchell Hashimoto, is one of my favorite examples of this split. Its core, libghostty, is written in Zig, exposes a C API, and handles terminal emulation, fonts, and rendering. On top of it sit a macOS... - Source: dev.to / 5 days ago
Almost everything happens in a terminal, so the terminal matters. I use Ghostty because it's fast and feels native on macOS, which is exactly what you want from the tool you keep open all day. - Source: dev.to / 8 days ago
You need tmux 3.3+, jq, git, python3 and a logged-in Claude Code. Ghostty is recommended, but any terminal works if you start tmux yourself. - Source: dev.to / 20 days ago
Tracking DevStackBox since Oct 2026.
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