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_.
Foot ( https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot )
iTerm2 has way more features and configuration options
Ghostty is simpler and faster
What's better? Only works for some or works for anyone?
What's better, an apple or an orange?
Depends.
My grandma uses those!
I used iTerm2 until I noticed that Ghostty’s New Tab opens at the current working directory.
Haven’t gone back since.
You can set that in iterm 2. I've had it that way for ages
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.
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.
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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_.