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Comments on No. 7 of 107 · Mitchell Hashimoto · edition of Saturday 7 November 2026

Libghostty 1.0

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Mitchell Hashimoto has released libghostty-vt 1.0, the C terminal-emulation library extracted from Ghostty, with a stable C ABI enforced in CI through libabigail checks and versioned ELF symbols. It also ships signed tarballs for offline distro packaging, and it builds for Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, iOS and WebAssembly. JetBrains IDE terminals now use it, and a Neovim replacement of libvterm is approved but awaiting a tagged release. Claims of broader usage, the 10,000-terminal test and the 1,500-line terminal come from the author and are unverified.

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