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Ghostty's community is much nicer compared to Alacritty :)

Thanks. I'm interested in seeing examples (of Alacritty community not being nice). I'm aware of one now [1] but I have not been involved with the Alacritty community much. I read/write a few bug reports when the project was born; after that it has served me very well (compared to iTerm2 and Terminal.app). IIRC there was something with ligatures but I don't remember.

Thus far I have not been able to get my italic bold font (Cartograph CF) working on Ghostty, but this is a minor issue.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42532762

One issue I noted was when they advertised poorly implemented cross-platform support https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27079234 and then told Mac users to use other terminals.

And then another where one of their maintainers had a meltdown and his fellow dev jumped in to protect him from... a bug report on the color green https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/1561

This was a few years ago so maybe they grew up since then.

Yikes, that ramblerman who was all over that HN thread still posts today. The distance by which he missed the point is shocking. How does one get that far off without doing it deliberately?

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