(note: out-of-order to linked post for comment cohesion)

Terminals are an invisible technology to most

what a fucking sentence

…that are hyper present in the everyday life of many in the tech industry.

hyper? like this?

But the terminal itself is boring, the real impact of Ghostty is going to be in libghostty and making all of this completely available for many use cases. My hope is that through building a broadly adopted shared underlayer of terminals around the industry we can do some really interesting things.

oh good so the rentier bridgetroll wants to do just a monopoly play? that’s fine I’m sure. note: I don’t think there’s a more charitable reading of this. those shared underlayers already exist, in the form of decades of protocol and other development. many of them suck and I agree about trying to do better, but I (rather strongly) suspect hashi and I have very different ideas of what that looks like

I’ve already addressed the belittling of the project I really find useful and care about. So let’s just move on to the financial class.

Regardless of my financial ability to support this project, any project that financially survives (for or non-profit) at the whims of a single donor is an unhealthy project

“uwu, think of the poor projects. yes sure I could throw $20m at this in some kind of funny trust and have it live forever but that wouldn’t allow me to evade the point so much!”

I paid a 9-figure tax bill and also donated over 5% of my other stuff to charity this year

“I’m not as bad as the other billionaires I promise”