Mitchell Hashimoto • 8/14/2025

We Rewrote the Ghostty GTK Application

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The article details the technical rewrite of the Ghostty terminal's GTK application using Zig, focusing on integration with the GObject type system and using Valgrind for memory verification. It explains the challenges of memory management and the benefits gained in stability and features for the Linux/BSD version.

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