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ac29
39 days ago
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State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Ch...
Yep this is my current favorite too. I liked ghostty when I evaluated it, but for some reason it uses an order of magnitude more memory than foot to display a single, empty terminal.
tristan957
38 days ago
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Ghostty uses GTK + GPU rendering while Foot uses Wayland primitives and CPU rendering.
colordrops
38 days ago
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I've seen zero performance issues with foot.
tristan957
31 days ago
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My comment was not to imply that Ghostty performed better than Foot. Foot is a great terminal.
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