Hacker News: tristan957

New comment by tristan957 in "Superlogical"

tristan957 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:51:32 +0000

Well neither of those is backed by libghostty. They also aren't native. This multiplexer is a native application on macOS. Hopefully we see a native port for Windows and Linux too.

New comment by tristan957 in "Superlogical"

tristan957 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:36:42 +0000

The application layer is in Swift at least.

New comment by tristan957 in "What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust"

tristan957 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:26:38 +0000

> There's really nothing good, from a technical perspective, when something is enlarged 1000x the requirement. If you look at the code for sysvinit, it's maybe 10k lines. Systemd is > 1M lines of code, likely approaching 1.5M by now. So I suppose, 100x the size.

The systemd repo is a mono repo for other tools in addition to the init system.

I've heard from many sysadmins and distribution maintainers that systemd has been amazing. We went from ad hoc shell scripts to declarative plain text files. I think that's a huge win.

New comment by tristan957 in "Vouch"

tristan957 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:05:37 +0000

As Mitchell said, the rules of engagement are defined per project. I'm giving you an example.

New comment by tristan957 in "Vouch"

tristan957 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:59:07 +0000

Mitchell has really enjoyed Nu essentially. If it is implemented in a shell script, it probably also means that general shell tooling can work with the format.

New comment by tristan957 in "Vouch"

tristan957 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:50:05 +0000

Nobody is screwed in the Ghostty project. Simply open a discussion to discuss your idea.

New comment by tristan957 in "Vouch"

tristan957 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:49:24 +0000

The barrier in the Ghostty project is to simply open a discussion. It's not really hard.

New comment by tristan957 in "LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions"

tristan957 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 23:26:46 +0000

I restart my browser basically every day.

New comment by tristan957 in "Zig Libc"

tristan957 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:55:56 +0000

Andrew doesn't need to write anything. You're making a bad faith argument.

> I think it's reasonable to assume that he means to literally abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement, leaving the US without Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

You really don't think that the US had federal immigration enforcement before 2003. Very strange.

New comment by tristan957 in "Zig Libc"

tristan957 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:14:10 +0000

Denouncing ICE is not denouncing federal immigration law. The Department of Homeland Security did not exist until 2003. Are you saying that prior to 2003, the US did not enforce federal immigration law?

New comment by tristan957 in "The Codex App"

tristan957 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:54:19 +0000

Can you explain why GTK is a mess?

New comment by tristan957 in "Can I start using Wayland in 2026?"

tristan957 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:01:22 +0000

What is the flatpak stack? Even unsandboxed apps use the portals.

New comment by tristan957 in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

tristan957 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:03:52 +0000

Basedpyright is really good. I've been using it in neovim for a while. I'm currently evaluating ty. It is definitely not as good, but it is also really new.

I appreciate that we have good alternatives to pylance. While it is good, it being closed source is a travesty.

New comment by tristan957 in "IBM to acquire Confluent"

tristan957 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 04:32:12 +0000

MATE exists. You can use it right now.

New comment by tristan957 in "IBM to acquire Confluent"

tristan957 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 04:31:46 +0000

The people on the Red Hat desktop team that work on GNOME are killing it. I think you might not be paying attention. Not every change is visible.

New comment by tristan957 in "Ghostty is now non-profit"

tristan957 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:52:48 +0000

gnome-terminal is GTK 3 last I checked, and foot uses Wayland primitives. If you want a native terminal feel, Ghostty would be a great terminal. On Linux, my backup terminal is Ptyxis, authored by Christian Hergert. I recommend Ptyxis over gnome-terminal or gnome-console.

New comment by tristan957 in "Ghostty is now non-profit"

tristan957 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:51:06 +0000

I use Ghostty because it is a native application, and it looks great on macOS and GNOME. WezTerm, Kitty, and Foot don't do that for me. Foot is great though.

New comment by tristan957 in "Ghostty is now non-profit"

tristan957 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:49:52 +0000

The GNOME Foundation is a non-profit as well.

New comment by tristan957 in "Ghostty is now non-profit"

tristan957 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:47:18 +0000

> Does anyone have good examples of this actually happening for end user software (like Ghostty is) and where in the long term proprietary fork won?

VSCode is a proprietary fork of code-oss, the product located at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode. It might not be an example that you're looking for though.

New comment by tristan957 in "Ghostty is now non-profit"

tristan957 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:44:01 +0000

Ghostty 1.3 will release in March.