I've moved back to Kitty and now I wonder why I ever left! Kovid not only consistently innovates in the terminal space, he also helps set standards. It really is a great, non-commercial project that I think everyone should support. I'd love if they a better icon on Mac OS though.
I avoided wezterm for a long time because I thought the name was dumb. It's my favorite terminal emulator now. I have a nice consistent experience across macos and linux - which is not something I could ever achieve with ghostty.
We run on a 6 month release cycle as noted in our release notes. The 1.4 release was scheduled for the last week of September (~a week ago), but it had to be pushed to October due to personal family travel as well as some lagging localization PRs. After we release in October, there won't be another release until March.
I'm actually working on the 1.4 changelog right now and I put out a call for help for the translations yesterday on X. The only risk now is that my 3 year old became very sick today and my wife is out of town, so I'm solo parent and that's now impacting things.
There's been literally over a thousand changes on main between March and today and if you look at our commit history we're extremely active with commits almost every day. So I'm not sure what anyone is trying to imply by sharing this with this title, but please don't read into it in any weird way.
I'm surprised you haven't delegated duties like these to other members of the project at the stage Ghostty is (non-profit, with compensated contributors). Maybe you are able to manage being the BDFL and your other interests well enough and this is a minor hiccup.
I had asked on the Ghostty discord back in September about the September release and received no response so I figured there was probably some major goal for this release that stretched the release so I left it alone.
After upgrading to macOS 27 I saw a bug with the tab titles and just opted to change my config to follow the latest tip always and I'm much happier. The tip is quite stable so it's one piece of software I don't mind being on the bleeding edge of, even if it's one of the most crucial parts of my daily workflow.
Other comments have pointed out that this seems fine, and that the project has commits as recent as 4 hours ago.
This bizarre measure of software, that it needs to constantly be getting new releases and be under constant change is ridiculous. Good things are stable enough that they don't require 900 tiny releases. This is often a good measure of mature software, the fact that it doesn't change endlessly.
I made this comment not because I expect software to evolve constantly and with quick pace, but because I feared about something serious happened to the developer, i.e. bus factor.
A software package I use which needs constant maintenance is abandoned once. Now, new people are trying to keep things running and I'm trying to help as much as I can. We still can't reach the original developer. We know he's alive, but, he's not responding to anything.
On the other hand, there are software packages which only get maintenance love (i.e. bug fixes and minimal effort to keep it running on newer systems), I'm fine either way.
In short: I don't care about the project, I care about people behind it to be in good shape. I don't even use Ghostty. I'm a Konsole guy.
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We run on a 6 month release cycle as noted in our release notes. The 1.4 release was scheduled for the last week of September (~a week ago), but it had to be pushed to October due to personal family travel as well as some lagging localization PRs. After we release in October, there won't be another release until March.
I'm actually working on the 1.4 changelog right now and I put out a call for help for the translations yesterday on X. The only risk now is that my 3 year old became very sick today and my wife is out of town, so I'm solo parent and that's now impacting things.
There's been literally over a thousand changes on main between March and today and if you look at our commit history we're extremely active with commits almost every day. So I'm not sure what anyone is trying to imply by sharing this with this title, but please don't read into it in any weird way.
It feels like this submission might be a violation of HN guidelines for editorialization.
I’m also in the camp of people who don’t want frequent updates to my terminal. Every 6 months is more than enough for me. :)
I'm surprised you haven't delegated duties like these to other members of the project at the stage Ghostty is (non-profit, with compensated contributors). Maybe you are able to manage being the BDFL and your other interests well enough and this is a minor hiccup.
I had asked on the Ghostty discord back in September about the September release and received no response so I figured there was probably some major goal for this release that stretched the release so I left it alone.
After upgrading to macOS 27 I saw a bug with the tab titles and just opted to change my config to follow the latest tip always and I'm much happier. The tip is quite stable so it's one piece of software I don't mind being on the bleeding edge of, even if it's one of the most crucial parts of my daily workflow.
This bizarre measure of software, that it needs to constantly be getting new releases and be under constant change is ridiculous. Good things are stable enough that they don't require 900 tiny releases. This is often a good measure of mature software, the fact that it doesn't change endlessly.
How often does `rxvt-unicode` change?
It's a TERMINAL, folks.
A software package I use which needs constant maintenance is abandoned once. Now, new people are trying to keep things running and I'm trying to help as much as I can. We still can't reach the original developer. We know he's alive, but, he's not responding to anything.
On the other hand, there are software packages which only get maintenance love (i.e. bug fixes and minimal effort to keep it running on newer systems), I'm fine either way.
In short: I don't care about the project, I care about people behind it to be in good shape. I don't even use Ghostty. I'm a Konsole guy.