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A few months ago, a new terminal emulator was released. It's called ghostty, and it has been a highly anticipated terminal emulator for a while, especially due to the coverage that it received from ThePrimeagen, who had been using for a while, while it was in private beta.

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[โ€“] treeshateorcs@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)
 ~ pacman -Si ghostty | grep Size
Download Size   : 14.05 MiB
Installed Size  : 30.96 MiB
 ~ pacman -Si foot | grep Size
Download Size   : 320.45 KiB
Installed Size  : 758.50 KiB

nuff said

They have a Glfw build, it is a lot smaller and faster but they don't want to support it.

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