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👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

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How fast ghostty-org/ghostty is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

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Stars, forks and merged pull requests each day or month, lined up with the repository's rank on Trendshift Trending

Sep 5 – Nov 4, 2026

Stars +2,818 in 61 days

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Forks +481 in 61 days

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Merged PRs 360 in 61 days

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Sat, Sep 5, 2026+29+50#2
Sun, Sep 6, 2026+40+42#2
Mon, Sep 7, 2026+33+56#2
Tue, Sep 8, 2026+35+62#2
Wed, Sep 9, 2026+41+65#4
Thu, Sep 10, 2026+38+113#2
Fri, Sep 11, 2026+40+50#1
Sat, Sep 12, 2026+35+72#1
Sun, Sep 13, 2026+45+33#2
Mon, Sep 14, 2026+43+912#1
Tue, Sep 15, 2026+56+31#1
Wed, Sep 16, 2026+42+63#3
Thu, Sep 17, 2026+44+81#2
Fri, Sep 18, 2026+33+610#2
Sat, Sep 19, 2026+39+82#1
Sun, Sep 20, 2026+50+64#2
Mon, Sep 21, 2026+46+43#1
Tue, Sep 22, 2026+26+64#4
Wed, Sep 23, 2026+42+82#1
Thu, Sep 24, 2026+40+143#1
Fri, Sep 25, 2026+32+615#1
Sat, Sep 26, 2026+31+90#4
Sun, Sep 27, 2026+37+71#2
Mon, Sep 28, 2026+40+311#2
Tue, Sep 29, 2026+51+96#1
Wed, Sep 30, 2026+35+916#3
Thu, Oct 1, 2026+35+39#1
Fri, Oct 2, 2026+21+73#3
Sat, Oct 3, 2026+17+21#5
Sun, Oct 4, 2026+21+78#3
Mon, Oct 5, 2026+27+82#3
Tue, Oct 6, 2026+44+146#2
Wed, Oct 7, 2026+28+103#4
Thu, Oct 8, 2026+46+137#1
Fri, Oct 9, 2026+33+73#2
Sat, Oct 10, 2026+36+78#1
Sun, Oct 11, 2026+36+57#2
Mon, Oct 12, 2026+38+69#3
Tue, Oct 13, 2026+50+824#4
Wed, Oct 14, 2026+40+76#2
Thu, Oct 15, 2026+44+57#2
Fri, Oct 16, 2026+40+53#1
Sat, Oct 17, 2026+33+10#2
Sun, Oct 18, 2026+29+810#2
Mon, Oct 19, 2026+42+68#4
Tue, Oct 20, 2026+39+77#3
Wed, Oct 21, 2026+45+89#1
Thu, Oct 22, 2026+33+84#3
Fri, Oct 23, 2026+34+121#3
Sat, Oct 24, 2026+19+72#4
Sun, Oct 25, 2026+22+134#3
Mon, Oct 26, 2026+31+717#1
Tue, Oct 27, 2026+81+147#1
Wed, Oct 28, 2026+160+168#1
Thu, Oct 29, 2026+93+185#2
Fri, Oct 30, 2026+77+1813#2
Sat, Oct 31, 2026+56+96#3
Sun, Nov 1, 2026+82+167#5
Mon, Nov 2, 2026+135+1319Not trending
Tue, Nov 3, 2026+127+1210Not trending
Wed, Nov 4, 2026+101+10Not trending
Total+2,818+481360
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    • GitHub trending history

    Where the repository ranked on GitHub Trending, one dot for each day it was on a list

    Jun 23, 2025 – May 1, 2026Best #3

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    1. Nov 41 post

      • 选终端模拟器，常常要在快、功能多、原生界面之间取舍。 Ghostty 想三样都要：标准兼容的终端仿真，性能能打，多窗口、标签页、分屏齐全，界面走各平台原生体验。 还提供零依赖的 libghostty，可以把终端嵌进自己的应用。 现在每天有上百万人和机器在用。 地址：

        Read full on X, posted by @Fofy22023989

        @Fofy22023989 · x.com

    2. Nov 31 post

      • Most terminals make you pick: fast, feature-rich, or actually native. Ghostty gives all three — Metal/OpenGL, real tabs & splits, SwiftUI on Mac / GTK on Linux. 63.3k stars. #GitHub #OpenSource

        Read full on X, posted by @wushi123321

        @wushi123321 · x.com

    3. Nov 21 post

      • 换了三台电脑。 配终端环境还是挺折腾的。 字体渲染和多窗格布局，稍微调不好就容易卡顿掉帧。 看了一下 Ghostty。 它把 GPU 加速和原生 UI 直接焊在一起了。 分屏和标签页这些日常刚需，都是原生实现的。 顺手还打包了个 `libghostty`。 一个零依赖的 C 和 Zig 库。 想把终端功能塞进自己项目里的，直接就能调。

        Read full on X, posted by @musen9527

        @musen9527 · x.com

    4. Oct 301 post

      • HOLY F*CK, Terminal studio in 20 repos 20 open-source tools for Opus 5.5. Shell. Edit. Search. Git. System. Build. 01 Ghostty → GPU-native terminal 02 WezTerm → Lua-scripted terminal 03 Zellij →…

        Read full on X, posted by @0xTrackmind

        @0xTrackmind · x.com

    5. Oct 281 post

      • 终端历史一多就吃内存，翻旧输出还卡？ ghostty 是 GPU 加速原生终端：1.4 版历史压缩省内存，纯文本解析快 5.7 倍，默认历史上限也从 10MB 提到了 50MB。 对终端常驻几十个窗口的人来说，历史压缩比加内存条实在。 你会先拿它换掉哪个终端？ #终端 #开源 @grok

        Read full on X, posted by @xiaoanlab

        @xiaoanlab · x.com

    6. Oct 221 post

      • 终端每天开着，想用得更顺手？⌨️ Ghostty 是原生桌面终端，支持标签页、分屏和外观配置。适合写代码和 SSH。⚡ #Terminal #浇朋友 #蓝朋友 #互关 #fo

        Read full on X, posted by @T1doo_AI

        @T1doo_AI · x.com

    7. 15 days earlier
    8. Oct 72 posts

      • my last hour: ghostty deadlock - ~30 tabs beachball. on latest stable version. UI thread blocked during a window-focus change, with 16 renderer threads waiting on font-cache lock. completely unable…

        Read full on X, posted by @dpetrou

        @dpetrou · x.com

      • No new Ghostty updates since March

        Read full on Hacker News

        Hacker News

    9. Oct 31 post

      • it's a joke that in 2026 terminal don't support arabic. I'm trying to change some copy, and I want to tell it the change. It looks like this, which, for people that don't know, is just gibberish.…

        Read full on X, posted by @alymoursy

        @alymoursy · x.com

    10. 25 days earlier
    11. Sep 81 post

      • [yabai] Rice Deficiency

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