I'm not the commenter, but for me ghostty was good for being a Very Good terminal experience with almost no config required.

Just checked and the config file for my daily use terminal setup is 3 lines long. 3! That means I know I can chuck it on any system, any clean re-install, and it'll be Fine. That counts for a lot when you've grown tired of endless config tweaking.

Same for me.

My config is a couple lines longer, but other than font-family, font-size, color theme and a couple of other settings I didn't need to change anything else.

I definitely spent way less time configuring it to suit my needs that I did with any other terminal I used before.

Same. Almost everything works out of the box, with great defaults.

Seconded. I keep hearing about ghostty but I have yet to see a strong enough justification about how it is _that_ better. I use konsole and has significantly more user friendly screen to manage settings. I heard about ghostty's performance so I did some timing tests and ghostty was faster than konsole but not that much - not in any perceptibly significant measurable sense.

I went from Alacritty to Ghostty for ligatures and some other small goodies. I could probably get those same goodies with Kitty, but I didn't want to try nor have the desire to try. I may go back to Alacritty if I grow tired of Ghostty.

I've always found ligatures (fi, ff, ffi etc) really ugly. Or are you talking about using them for hacked purposes (-> in C)?

Then again I don't put different foods on my fork when eating - which seems relevant.

`==`, `===`, `->`, `-->` are more pleasant to read with ligatures on. It's silly, but nice.

I never got the speed thing. Ghostty at least seems slower on my machine compared to foot(client).

I tested kitty, foot, and ghostty on my machine when picking a terminal and ghostty was the slowest of the 3. I'm using kitty now.

YMMV because this is just one data point (but the most important data point for me)

i switched from iTerm 2 on macOS because it would get bogged down sometimes or occasionally lag. it’s been noticeably faster and i appreciate the file-based config as well as the defaults, leading to my config being under 5 lines.

on linux i use the default terminal in gnome which is ptyxis now iirc and haven’t felt any need to switch.

Don't you miss the crazy configuration options that iterm2 has?

the craziest thing i did with its config was to swap the profile being used based on the pattern of the instance’s hostname the terminal was logged into. The idea was to make the terminal background red on production hosts to give a visual indicator to avoid running anything destructive on prod hosts.

libghostty is a bigger contribution, it's being embedded left and right.

Splits can have different font sizes