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Which is more popular?
Based on our record, Ghostty seems to be more popular. It has been mentioned 29 times since March 2021.
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I've been on Ghostty for about 8 months. Last week I added herdr, a multiplexer built around running coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, opencode and friends) in panes. Ghostty already has tabs and splits, with Cmd shortcuts I use all... - Source: dev.to / 27 days ago
So I built a terminal. It's called viterm: a native macOS app in Swift + AppKit, with rendering handled by libghostty. MIT licensed. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago
I made a nice way to use all your coding harnesses and persist them entirely in the TUI. I love Cursor and Claude Code, but I like using many of them and often use them in combination with tmux locally and via SSH, so I made this for... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
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