Why “libghostty” is being discussed
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Is libghostty in charge of its own rendering, or can I bring my own renderer?
by nextaccountic · Nov 1, 2026
Yes, but Rex is built on libghostty with the multiplexing and agent integration built in, built by people I trust who don’t let the LLM write all their docs.
by dimbletimbers · Oct 31, 2026
Herdr is great, one of the exceptionally few TUI applications I actually use daily On the note of libghostty it does get me very excited about the new multiplexer thing Hashimot…
by nylonstrung · Oct 30, 2026
That's funny, I got tired of tmux the other day (it got into 100% spin loop from an unsigned int underflow used as a loop condition variable. and I debugged it all by myself lik…
by ashkankiani · Oct 30, 2026
> Herdr is wonderful, not only because of the coding agent integrations, but also because it uses libghostty under the hood. So no terminal-emulator-inside-another-terminal-emul…
by FluffyPancake · Oct 30, 2026
I switched to herdr this year after a decade of using tmux, and I haven't looked back since. Herdr is wonderful, not only because of the coding agent integrations, but also beca…
by flippant · Oct 30, 2026
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