Libghostty 1.0
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- Points724
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#1Peak rank
1Days on list
344Score · 7d
Nov 7, 2026First seen
Rank · 7 days
On Hacker News
- Points
- 724
- Comments
- 118
- Submitted by
- mfiguiere
- Posted
- Nov 6, 2026
- Site
- mitchellh.com
Story details from Hacker News ↗ · linked article on mitchellh.com.
Trending history
Libghostty 1.0 was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 7, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 92 checks on 1 different day. Its best position was #1 of 30, reached on Nov 7, 17:54 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 7, 23:09 UTC. The same link also trended on Lobsters, which raises its cross-platform score.
Rank history
Position on Hacker News · Front page at every check (lower is better).
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Where it trended
| List | Best | Days | Checks | Last seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hacker News · Front page | #1 | 1 | 92 | |
| LLobsters · Hottest Libghostty 1.0 | same link | |||
From the discussion
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> “And a whole wave of new terminals and "agentic" coding tools, such as herdr and cmux, have been built on it rather than writing yet another emulator.” Mitchell could have easily snuck his competing product Rex in there but resisted. Respect.
I'm currently working on my own Zig project (an interpreter) and right now I'm working on designing a C interface for it. Seeing things mentioned like having objects as opaque handles, or enum-keyed getters and setters, made me think about how clunky my current API is, since I leak too many details to callers. What…
Libghostty is a very cool project, this is an exciting release, kudos to mitchellh for spearheading this as well as all the people who have made contributions to the project. I use ghostty as my primary terminal emulator today and a few months ago I was experimenting with using libghostty in an android project that I…
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Questions
Is Libghostty 1.0 trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 7, 23:09 UTC, after 1 day of trending.
What is the highest rank Libghostty 1.0 reached?
#1 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 7, 17:54 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has Libghostty 1.0 been trending?
It was first seen on Nov 7, 2026 and has been on the list on 1 day (92 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
724 points and 118 comments; submitted by mfiguiere on Nov 6, 2026.