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Posted by vrnvu 12/3/2025

Ghostty is now non-profit(mitchellh.com)
1343 points | 289 commentspage 4
28304283409234 12/4/2025|
This is just a terminal emulator right?
StrLght 12/4/2025|
Yes, it is. It's so wild to see this.

For years people didn't care that much about specific terminal emulators or opinionated dotfiles. Now projects like Ghostty and Omarchy get tons of attention.

I get that it's probably not the projects themselves, but rather authors behind them. I'm also not saying that these projects are bad — they could be good. I don't use them, so I wouldn't know. It's just discouraging, seeing that other similar projects don't and probably won't get that traction.

hsbauauvhabzb 12/3/2025||
Hey articles like this could get some value with a two liner about what the tool is, tty can mean several things, so clearly stating its function would help gain additional users that aren’t already familiar with your product :)
stephenr 12/4/2025||
Oh good. Thank fuck that one of the dozens if not hundreds of terminal emulators isn't going to be a "rug pull".

It's a completely fucked situation when it happens to fairly unique/obscure software like say Terraform or Packer or Vagrant.

But if it happened to some software that's so common it's literally competing against built in apps on every desktop OS, I just don't know what I'd ever do

/s for anyone who needs it.

jtokoph 12/4/2025||
Someone just made an anonymous $10,000 donation!
thewtf 12/4/2025||
What exactly is the appeal of Ghostty? It doesn’t seem to offer anything new and it consumes more memory than other options.
noisy_boy 12/4/2025||
I thought I'll give it a try - looks great but found it takes longer to start than konsole so back to the latter.
mmaunder 12/3/2025||
Thanks for doing this Mitchell, if you're on here, and for contributing to open source. Donated.
itarmonkey 12/3/2025||
we got hack club sponsorship in HS. Sanil chawla is a great guy
tolerance 12/3/2025||
Is anyone opposed or at least of two minds concerning what could be described as the bureaucratization of FOSS?

Or has this always been a thing. But it feels like a common—and celebrated—outcome for a lot of projects.

chrysoprace 12/3/2025||
Non-profits allow projects to grow beyond hobbies. Covering costs (whether that's the expense of hosting / running the project or hiring talented people to work on it) is going to be a better incentive to keep the projects alive in the long term, meaning that people can rely on them instead of being wary that the project might become abandonware in a year.
skywhopper 12/3/2025||
Ever heard of the Free Software Foundation? Apache Software Foundation? FreeBSD Foundation? Linux Foundation?
akho 12/4/2025|||
xterm foundation, the urxvt conglomerate, foot collective farm, the ministry of alacritty, the 9term imperium

st corporation when

reducesuffering 12/3/2025|
"A non-profit structure provides enforceable assurances: the mission cannot be quietly changed, funds cannot be diverted to private benefit, and the project cannot be sold off or repurposed for commercial gain. The structure legally binds Ghostty to the public-benefit purpose it was created to serve."

I mean, after the OpenAI debacle, surely this type of assurance doesn't hold much weight anymore? (Though Ghostty is ofc very unlikely to pull shenanigans)

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