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		ksec on Dec 27, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ghostty 1.0 Congratulations. On the cross-platform library, I wonder why "libGhostty" and not libTerminal. Which seems like a more appropriate in term of library?

jez on Dec 28, 2024 [–]

Calling it libTerminal might be confusing. There are other terminal emulation libraries—for example libvterm[1], notably used to power the embedded terminal in Neovim.[2]

[1] https://www.leonerd.org.uk/code/libvterm/

[2] https://neovim.io/doc/user/terminal.html

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