I haven't try Ghostty, but what I like about kitty is that it's performant, easy to customize (often it's just one line to add and you get that new feature you want), I like their defaults for tabs, layouts. It's not overwhelming but not too minimal either. I just find it's a sweet spot. I also somehow like the personality of the maintainer which seem to have a nice vision for the project. My major gripe is that it's not available on windows, but anyways I rarely use microslop products nowadays.

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paaloeye 4 hours ago | parent [-]

AFAIK, Ghostty is as performant. At least, on macOS. I used both and didn't see much difference. Decided to go with Ghostty as it feels more native than Kitty.

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TheRoque 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah from what I've seen Ghostty is slightly more performant but they are both very performant.

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mstaoru 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How does a non-performant terminal look? I don't think I've even seen one.

Serious question.

	▲	TheRoque 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Print a massive log file in kitty/ghostty, and another one with you default terminal, and you'll see a massive difference in how fast the log is printed out. Well to be honest it's just comfort, I can't claim it makes a difference in actual productivity, for me the real benefits of kitty are just the terminal multiplexer-ish capabilities (panes, sessions), other rendering niceties like adjusting the font, or having smooth scroll, sensible default shortcuts. But the actual "performance" e.g. input lag or rendering lag, I don't think it's that important.
	▲	XYen0n 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I have previously seen programs run much more slowly when launched from the built-in terminal in a JetBrains IDE because log output was blocked.
	▲	devsda 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		iterm2. When there's heavy logging, I've seen it lag. Doesn't feel as snappy as Kitty.