Comment by stephc_int13
21 hours ago
I've been following the development of Ghostty for a while and while I have the feeling that there is a bit of over-engineering in this project, I find this kind of bug post mortem to be extremely valuable for anyone in love with the craft.
Over-engineered in what way?
It’s just a feeling, man.
Having to introduce a new language stack to distributioms just to be able to build a terminal emulator is what I would consider over-engineering.
So anything that uses a less popular language is considered over engineering? Distros support lots of different languages already and there are likely other packages built with zig already.
A 50-ish MB build time dependency that doesn't need any special privileges or installation to run? That's over engineering? A binary release of just CMake is bigger than all of Zig.