Libghostty 1.0
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Libghostty-vt 1.0 has been released, a portable, high-performance C library for terminal emulation extracted from Ghostty, with both the library and its C ABI now stable. The library is already in production for millions of users across hundreds of products, including JetBrains IDEs, whose terminal now runs on libghostty and serves over 12.5 million active users. Neovim has an approved pull request replacing libvterm with libghostty-vt, and KDE, Vercel's Turborepo, devenv, Antithesis, OrbStack, and newer agentic coding tools such as herdr and cmux have adopted it. Community bindings exist for Rust, Go, JavaScript, Swift, Python, .NET, Elixir, Dart, and Java, with the awesome-libghostty list tracking well over a hundred projects. The 1.0 milestone commits the project to semantic versioning and strict ABI compatibility, giving packagers and developers confidence to dynamically link against it. What to watch next is whether Neovim merges its approved pull request now that a tagged release exists, and whether KDE's experimental Konsole replacement moves toward adoption.
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