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A serious terminal emulator with a stupid name

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 2 stories, 2 comments · first 2026-07-23 · latest 2026-08-03

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  1. …The author of shitty encoded the whole terminal state machine in Ragel: https://github.com/pg83/shitty/blob/master/parser.rl The thing generates one of big DFA with actions for everything that can ever happen in the terminal. Prec
  2. …are used. In fact, it's even reflected in our CONTRIBUTING.md that we prefer LLM-assisted code! https://github.com/pg83/shitty/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
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    Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours
    story by pshirshov · 2026-08-02 · 165 comments
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    Shitty – A New Terminal Emulator
    story by zX41ZdbW · 2026-07-23 · 0 comments