It seems to me we’re seeing something of a native GNOME application renaissance, both core and third-party, buoyed by GTK 4 and Flatpak (as well as the trend towards immutable base images). Rust seems to be part of this too—Loupe, Fractal, and Emmanuele Bassi’s recent GUADEC talk on oxidizing GTK¹ are examples. There are now three newer VTE-based terminal emulators targeting a native GNOME UX: Console (C), Black Box (Vala), and Prompt (C). Is there something about VTE or terminal emulators that makes Rust less appealing, or is this just a coincidence? I’m curious.

Prompt will probably be my next terminal emulator. That inspector looks interesting. Have you seen Ghostty’s recent demo²?

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVWrllJQJ_s&t=6155s

2: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-devlog-005#terminal-in...