It being super responsive is the reason I switched to it. MacOS terminal had issues keeping up with Claude Code. It would frequently be super slow rendering the text output or sometimes just stop altogether.

When looking at options I looked at speed and simplicity. Ghostty fit the bill but I did evaluate iterm as well. Excellent terminal but too many features for what I was looking for. I live in the terminal but am not a Terminal App power user if that makes sense.

So, it really comes down to what you want and what your workflow looks like. Ghostty has been flawless for me the past 9months. It gets out of the way and just works really well.

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KerrAvon 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Really? Claude Code is buggy but not very demanding in terms of rendering -- are you sure the perf issues were local?

	▲	alemanek 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I might not be using the correct terms. But, here is what I was seeing: - in a running session text display would slow down intermittently. Like 2-3 words a second - occasionally terminal would stop, some times in the middle of showing a response, and would need to restart the terminal to get it back. But I tailed the session logs and Claude code didn’t think anything was amiss. It was proceeding like normal After switching to Ghostty these issues went away and has been rock solid since then. EDIT: formatting