Looks like Mitchell said he's already on it https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2049514540505964549
replyHe gave me a quick response, should have checked back before posting here
replyWhat is Ghostty's advantage over Alacritty?
replyI think Mitchell outlined his vision for libghostty pretty well here:
https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-is-coming
replyAlacritty is already pretty performant (relative to a lot of the other terminal emulators), but my read is Ghostty has been going hard over performance/standards/protocols (like Kitty).
The maintainer doesn’t have bad temper.
replyI did consider that. I remember nope-ing out of alacritty in the early days after seeing the developers response to people requesting a scrollback buffer. It amounted to something like "I use tmux, and if you don't, you use the terminal wrong." It left a bad taste in my mouth.
replyOne would be support for ligatures
replyLigatures are a renderer issue, so using alacritty as a lib wouldn't have this issue (it does demonstrate their hardline stance). Another example that would translate is how long it took them to support disambiguation of key combinations: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/6378 (2019-2023). Of course, the maintainers are free to do whatever they want with the project - but such things do make alacritty-as-a-lib an exceptionally bad choice for situations where you want things to just work.
replyThe Zed terminal already supports ligatures.
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