ghostty-org/ghostty

★63,973Zig🇺🇸 North AmericaMIT⑂ 3,892Issue 146Updated Nov 11, 2026

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

A terminal emulator that skips the speed-vs-features tradeoff — Ghostty is a native, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Zig that aims to combine speed, rich features, and platform-native UI without compromise. It also ships as libghostty, a zero-dependency C/Zig library for embedding terminal functionality into other apps, useful for developers building custom terminals.

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Relative growth (7d)+1%Growth over the last 7 days relative to size
Acceleration-28%Change in growth pace from the week before
Attention36The three metrics scaled to 0–100 and combined

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Star growth and Trending appearances (last 30 days)

First listed+149★/dayWeekly
Oct 13, 2026Nov 11, 2026

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Nov 6, 2026
#14 +726
Nov 5, 2026
#10 +738
Nov 4, 2026
#11 +771
Nov 3, 2026
#14 +687
Nov 2, 2026
#16 +589

Created Mar 30, 2022 · First on trending Nov 2, 2026

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