使用 Homebrew Cask 安装 ghostty

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项目历史

Ghostty began as Mitchell Hashimoto's passion project to build a terminal emulator that combined competitive performance, a rich feature set, and platform-native interfaces. It uses native Swift/AppKit integration on macOS and GTK on Linux, backed by a shared terminal core.

The project made its initial public release in late 2024 and quickly entered a regular release cadence. During the Ghostty 1.3 development cycle in 2026, it became a nonprofit project intended to provide mission-driven long-term stewardship.

采用历史

Ghostty's initial public release brought the project to a broad audience after a period of private development. The official repository now characterizes it as stable and in daily use by millions of people and machines, while release notes show substantial community participation soon after 1.0.

使用方式

Users run shells and terminal applications in native windows with tabs, splits, themes, shell integration, custom key bindings, and extensive terminal-protocol support. Ghostty follows a zero-configuration philosophy but exposes hundreds of text-file options for users who want to tune its behavior.

On macOS it provides an AppKit-based experience; on Linux it uses GTK and integrates with contemporary Wayland and X11 desktops. Developers can also build from source or experiment with libghostty as an embeddable terminal component.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

Ghostty is notable to package enthusiasts as a modern terminal written primarily in Zig, with distinct native front ends for macOS and Linux rather than a shared web-based shell. Its maintainers publish package-specific build guidance and signed source archives, reflecting unusually deliberate support for downstream packaging.

Its reusable libghostty work also makes the project relevant beyond the application itself: the terminal parser and related components are being developed for embedding in other programs.

时间线

• 2024: Ghostty made its initial public 1.0 release
• 2025: Early post-1.0 releases expanded stability and Linux desktop integration
• 2026: Ghostty 1.3 arrived after a six-month development cycle involving 180 contributors
• 2026: The project announced that it had become a nonprofit

Related projects

• libghostty, Ghostty's embeddable terminal library
• GTK and libadwaita, used by the Linux interface
• Zig, Ghostty's principal implementation language

来源

• https://ghostty.org/docs/about
• https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes
• https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-1-0
• https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-3-0
• https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty
• https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/PACKAGING.md