The home page is obviously going for 'quirky', but it's mad that it doesn't even say "...is a terminal emulator" anywhere. At first, I thought Ghostty was an ASCII animation library! I guess the name's suffix should've clued me in, but that's easy to overlook in a hurry.
Somebody please read this! I thought it was some goofy JavaScript demo or something. It wasn’t until I clicked on the download link that I realized it was something else entirely. I was thinking “why does this ghost JavaScript demo thing have a download link?” and I expected it to go to some GitHub page or something
The homepage is cool but on mobile it isn’t at all obvious this is software, let alone a terminal emulator. If this HN post didn’t already have like 1000 votes I probably wouldn’t have even bothered with testing the link. I would have said “cool ghost” and moved on with my day.
That being said, I am looking forward to trying this as an iterm2 replacement. Iterm2 has been my default terminal on Mac since forever… it was probably the first hit for “putty for mac” or something, and I probably installed it and never even considered trying something else. It’s always “just worked”.
