Ghostty

Health v2 · maintenance only

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60305 stars · 3353 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration, written in Zig. It also ships libghostty, a zero-dependency C/Zig library for embedding terminal functionality into other applications.

Use cases

• fast gpu-accelerated terminal emulator
• native terminal with tabs and split panes
• cross-platform terminal for macos and linux
• embed a terminal emulator in my app
• terminal emulator with rich windowing features

When to choose

• you want a fast terminal with a native platform UI
• you need tabs, splits, and multi-window support out of the box
• you want to embed a standards-compliant terminal via libghostty

When to avoid

• you need a terminal that runs in a browser or over ssh in a plain environment
• you require highly customized theming ecosystems tied to other emulators
• you need Windows support as a first-class stable target

Facets

application · maturity stable

gui developer-tools terminal-ui gpu-computing developer-tools cross-platform windows cross-platform cpp rust terminal-emulator gpu-accelerated zig libghostty native-ui embeddable-terminal command-line macos linux

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