Open-source terminal Ghostty moves under Hack Club’s non-profit umbrella, ensuring stability and mission-driven stewardship.

Mitchell Hashimoto, one of the founders of HashiCorp and lead developer behind Ghostty, a GPU-accelerated open-source terminal emulator launched in 2023, announced that the app has formally become a non-profit project through fiscal sponsorship by Hack Club, a registered 501©(3) organization.

In Ghostty’s case, Hack Club now manages compliance, donations, accounting, and public financial transparency. Hashimoto says this structure reinforces Ghostty’s commitment to remaining free and open source, provides legal assurances to users and contributors, and establishes a sustainable foundation beyond any single individual’s involvement.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Ghostty has single-instance mode on Linux that shares some resources.

    Oh I didn’t know this. I will have to try it sometime.

    That’s fine for lightweight usage, but for workflows like mine that involve heavy TUIs and multiple tmux sessions with dozens of windows/panes with big scrollback buffers, it becomes a bottleneck when one or more panes are flooding output from scripts/playbooks/etc.

    Yeah, for sure. Different use cases. Hence I can keep both installed, heh.