Ghostty — Fast, Native, Feature-Rich Terminal Emulator

  • Source: ghostty.org
  • Verdict: keep
  • Why: Terminal emulator by Mitchell Hashimoto, written in Zig. 60k GitHub stars — the most visible Zig project outside the language itself. Native UI (SwiftUI on macOS, GTK4 on Linux), GPU-accelerated, multi-threaded with SIMD-optimized parser. The real story is libghostty: a cross-platform, zero-dependency C and Zig library for embedding terminal emulation in any project. Already used by multiple third-party terminals. If you're running Zig tooling (Boris, Ziex), Ghostty is the natural terminal to run it in.

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