Comment by clintonc

Comment by clintonc 2 days ago

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Curious to know what makes this "a proper VT100 implementation in the browser, not a JavaScript approximation of one" -- isn't Ghostty also an approximation, just implemented in a different language? Seems unnecessarily pejorative to me.

0x1ch 2 days ago

Aren't terminals also called... terminal emulators? All modern terminals would be an approximation by this logic. Some approximate backwards compatibility with VT** spec more than others.

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kylecarbs 2 days ago

Agreed. I removed "not a JavaScript approximation of one" from the README.

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  • chjj 2 days ago

    I don't mean to derail discussion about a cool project, but it still seems to imply xterm.js is somehow "improper" emulation (though I might be misreading it).

    Terminal emulators are all approximations of terminals, regardless of the programming language.

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    • kylecarbs 2 days ago

      They are approximations but Ghostty has intentional effort towards correctness, more than I've seen from other terminal emulators.

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      • chjj 2 days ago

        Fair enough. I haven't looked at the internals of ghostty, so I'll take your word for it.

        I'm probably also just taking things personally.

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  • badmonster a day ago

    Fair clarification. Does Ghostty's WASM approach have performance advantages over pure xterm.js implementations?

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