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Ghostty for the web with xterm.js API compatibility
13 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 3 stories, 10 comments · first 2025-11-26 · latest 2026-05-29
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Ghostty-web exists and is even API compatible with xterm.js (same engine that powers Ghostty): https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web/ In fact, it looks like wterm's 12KB plugin doesnt offer full term emulation and uses ghostty to support…
comment by nacs · 2026-05-29 · in Wterm – A terminal emulator for the web -
If you haven't already it may be worth looking at https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web which wraps libghostty in an xterm.js compatible wrapper, the focus for Ghostty has very much been the sort of things you're mentioning so it'll…
comment by jon-wood · 2026-05-27 · in Cate v1.0 is out: The Infinite canvas workspace for developers -
…did check it out but was worried by number of issues and the last release being in Dec (ref: https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web/issues/137 ) Crossing my fingers for a more official libghostty soon for the web! I know Hashimoto is working…
comment by nwparker · 2026-03-28 · in Show HN: Open Source 'Conductor + Ghostty' -
…using xterm. Check out ghostty-web[0], which is the Ghostty WASM and can be swapped with xterm. 0. https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web
comment by theturtletalks · 2026-03-28 · in Show HN: Open Source 'Conductor + Ghostty' -
…instead of 20 tabs with similar names. (See Zed for example) Also! I'm considering Ghostty web ( https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web ) for my project Ink Web. It's awesome that Ghostty can work in the browser to replace xterm.js.…
comment by rothific · 2026-03-01 · in Ghostty – Terminal Emulator -
…, to answer some messages asking about it: I built this with the fantastic ghostty-web project ( https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web ). It's been a while since I've used WASM for anything and this made it really easy. I deployed the demo…
comment by abelanger · 2026-02-14 · in Building a TUI is easy now -
…friend, I'm building a custom frontend for Vibetunnel that uses ghostty-web[0] instead of xterm! 0. https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web
comment by theturtletalks · 2025-12-29 · in Show HN: Superset – Terminal to run 10 parallel coding agents -
Thanks for confirming! Made it work on my iPhone and opened a PR :-) https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web/pull/76
comment by gregsadetsky · 2025-12-02 · in Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility -
See the comparison: https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web?tab=readme-ov-file#comp... Ghostty has much better VT100 compatibility. It should have much better performance as well once we optimize.
comment by kylecarbs · 2025-12-01 · in Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility -
…ghostty-web has a wasm build. Probably not inconceivable to spin a more general wasm build too. https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46060087
comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-11-27 · in Bonsai_term: A library for building dynamic terminal apps by Jane Street