Over the holidays, Ghostty was released.

Except for some Redditors saying “Oh we have so many terminal emulators now, what’s new with this one?”. It was very well received by everybody.

Present company included, I am a big fan of it.

I’ve never tried anything other than the default Gnome terminal, and the default Terminal app from MacOS. Ghostty was visibly fast for auto-completion, going through and grepping logs from kubernetes pods.

Ghostty reminded me of why I use zed. It’s the same reason I used Sublime Text when I started programming.

Bloat

I haven’t gone through setting up JavaScript/Python language extensions in Zed. Thus, the editor is very fast for browsing through and making minor edits. On the contrary, with 20 extensions and programming good-to-have(s) setup in VS Code, it’s slow as a snail.

So now I use Ghostty to do one-off tasks like restarting a pod or starting something in a remote server.

For tasks where look and feel of the screen might be important like a pair-programming session, it’ll have to wait until I learn how to configure it better.

And that’s the way I’m using Zed as well!