Recommendations you can check.
by Mitchell Hashimoto
Who uses, recommends or left Ghostty, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
10 people
VS Code’s terminal is too unstable, had plenty freezes when pasting in large amounts of text. Nothing beats Ghostty.
A post laying out his current AI development workflow and the tools in it.
2025-08-25·steipete.me ↗
I moved from Alacritty to Ghostty, which has been absolutely excellent. It’s wicked fast, it has my favourite colour scheme built in, and I just love the way @mitchellh has set the project up for success in the long term. It also fits in nicely with my minimally configured applications, with excellent defaults out of the box.
A long post on moving his daily driver from NixOS back to Ubuntu, listing the tools he settled on.
2025-06-24·jnsgr.uk ↗
Terminal: Ghostty. It's missing a scroll bar and search, but otherwise super fast and nice.
His /uses page, updated 29 May 2026, listing the computer, peripherals and software he works with and the gear he carries.
2026-05-29·macwright.com ↗
Combination of Oh My Zsh with Ghostty terminal makes the terminal more informative and productive. Enhanced with plugins like zsh-autosuggestions and fzf.
His "Things I use" page, one entry per tool with his own note on why. The page is undated and no dated source for it could be found. (undated page)
2022-05-28·ripandis.com ↗
I switched to Ghostty for its speed and simplicity. It’s GPU-accelerated, fast and the sensible defaults mean it just works without much configuration
His /uses page. The page carries no publication date and says he keeps the list updated as his workflow changes; the date here is when the page was retrieved.
I have no intention of ever commercializing Ghostty. To solidify this, I donated the entirety of Ghostty to a federally recognized non-profit in 2025.
A personal post announcing his new company Superlogical and explaining how Ghostty's non-profit status is unaffected.
2026-07-29·mitchellh.com ↗
I pasted the result into the terminal (I use Ghostty), and before too long I had created a new folder of Markdown files in Obsidian.
His annual productivity post, running down the software he still uses, what he dropped, and the LLM wiki he built. The post carries his standing disclosure that his fiancé works at Anthropic.
2026-08-19·platformer.news ↗
When I'm not using the integrated terminal in PHPStorm, I'm probably using Ghostty:
His post "Uses (September 2025)", listing the tools, services and equipment he uses day to day.
2025-09-06·duncanmcclean.com ↗
Ghostty: Terminal emulator.
His /uses page, a running list of the hardware and software he works with; its own changelog gives 2025-04-03 as the latest edit.
2025-04-03·carlosbecker.com ↗
I switched from Ghostty to WezTerm in July 2026. It uses a custom Neon Afterglow colour scheme based on my Zed theme, Victor Mono, and the same tab shortcuts I had configured in Ghostty.
His /uses page, which states it was last updated on August 25th 2026.
2026-08-25·scottspence.com ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.