Libghostty 1.0 - Hackdot

Re:Libghostty 1.0 by Decabytes on Friday November 06, 2026 @08:14PM (#50400653)

I’m curious why they chose to use C for this as opposed to Zig with a c like interface.

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Re:Libghostty 1.0 by nektro on Friday November 06, 2026 @08:19PM (#50400677)

it's Zig with a C ABI

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Re:Libghostty 1.0 by devy on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:31PM (#50401376)

Yeah, Mitchell's description is very confusing.

   libghostty-vt 1.0 is here. libghostty is a portable, high-performance C library for terminal emulation, extracted directly from the core of Ghostty.

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Re:Libghostty 1.0 by ximm on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:33PM (#50401388)

Does that mean that it won't be packaged for Debian until zig is also stable? (see https://gracefulliberty.com/articles/four-months-of-zig/#bet...)

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Re:Libghostty 1.0 by Zambyte on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:50PM (#50401722)

And a C API

https://lib.ghostty.org/vt/files.html

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Re:Libghostty 1.0 by minraws on Friday November 06, 2026 @08:21PM (#50400690)

It's Zig

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Re:Libghostty 1.0 by trollbridge on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:03PM (#50400946)

It’s Zog with a C ABI. Zig bindings are a bit of a moving target still.

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