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Re:State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions by ac29 on Monday November 03, 2025 @04:26PM (#45804646)
Yep this is my current favorite too. I liked ghostty when I evaluated it, but for some reason it uses an order of magnitude more memory than foot to display a single, empty terminal.
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Re:State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions by tristan957 on Monday November 03, 2025 @07:50PM (#45806357)
Ghostty uses GTK + GPU rendering while Foot uses Wayland primitives and CPU rendering.
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Re:State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions by colordrops on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @03:04AM (#45808540)
I've seen zero performance issues with foot.
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Re:State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions by tristan957 on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @09:54AM (#45887906)
My comment was not to imply that Ghostty performed better than Foot. Foot is a great terminal.
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