Mitchell Hashimoto announced libghostty 1.0, a portable high-performance C terminal emulation library extracted from Ghostty, with now-stable C ABI. The library is already powering terminals in JetBrains IDEs (12.5M+ users), has an approved Neovim PR replacing libvterm, and is being experimented with by KDE and adopted by tools like Turborepo and devenv.
Background
Ghostty is a popular open-source GPU-accelerated terminal emulator created by Mitchell Hashimoto (founder of HashiCorp). Libghostty extracts the terminal emulation core into a standalone library for broader adoption across applications.
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- Nov 7, 2026 at 07:48 AM
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- 7.0 / 10