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points by brcmthrowaway 1 day ago | 0 comments

What's better, iTerm2 or Ghostty?

what makes foot interesting? i don't see anything that stands out in the list of features.

why would you want your terminal to be interesting??? it's a substrate -- it just has to work seamlessly, and it just works without trying to be anything besides a terminal.

[–] dmerrick 1 day ago

iTerm2 has way more features and configuration options

Ghostty is simpler and faster

[–] goodmythical 1 day ago

What's better? Only works for some or works for anyone?

[–] loeg 1 day ago

What's better, an apple or an orange?

[–] doubled112 1 day ago

Depends.

[–] solyin 1 day ago

My grandma uses those!

[–] turadg 1 day ago

I used iTerm2 until I noticed that Ghostty’s New Tab opens at the current working directory.

Haven’t gone back since.

[–] paradox460 1 day ago

You can set that in iterm 2. I've had it that way for ages

[–] turadg 1 day ago

Oh right, it didn’t work for me because it depends on edits to my shell config files that didn’t work in my setup.

I suppose my accolade is that Ghostty just does what I want without hunting through config screens and managing file edits.

[–] soraminazuki 10 hours ago

> it depends on edits to my shell config files

No, it doesn't.

What you're describing is a Gnome Terminal issue.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697475

But OSC 7 is a standard supported across virtually all widely used terminal emulators anyway, so configuring your shell to emit it is a sensible thing to do regardless.

https://ghostty.org/docs/vt/osc/7

[–] sorahn 1 day ago

You can configure iterm2 to do whatever you want in new tabs or panes. This feature has been available for over a decade.

I have it reuse the same directory in a new pane. And my home directory in a new tab.

[–] gbear605 14 hours ago

Hah, I actually just switched to Ghostty and had to turn that feature off. Yay for configuration.

[–] sick_of_slop 1 day ago

I think Ghostty is great for the most part but I keep going back to iTerm2, personally.

iTerm just feel less buggy. For example I was running Claude in a container the other day and the slash command complete wasn’t rendering properly with Ghostty but worked perfectly fine with iTerm.

I want to switch to Ghostty because I prefer how simple Ghostty is overall and I think the project itself is very cool and an important piece of software (libghostty) but it doesn’t quite get there for _for my use cases_.