Comment by stephc_int13

Comment by stephc_int13 a day ago

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I've been following the development of Ghostty for a while and while I have the feeling that there is a bit of over-engineering in this project, I find this kind of bug post mortem to be extremely valuable for anyone in love with the craft.

trevorhinesley a day ago

Over-engineered in what way?

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  • cbmuser 17 hours ago

    Having to introduce a new language stack to distributioms just to be able to build a terminal emulator is what I would consider over-engineering.

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    • surajrmal 16 hours ago

      So anything that uses a less popular language is considered over engineering? Distros support lots of different languages already and there are likely other packages built with zig already.

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    • weebull 16 hours ago

      A 50-ish MB build time dependency that doesn't need any special privileges or installation to run? That's over engineering? A binary release of just CMake is bigger than all of Zig.

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