To be honest, I don't "get" ghostty. I am not really seeing how this is so much better than the GNOME terminal that ships with my Linux distro.

A lot of people are claiming that ghostty is "faster." I watched the lightning talk where the author claims that catting files and binaries is faster.

I tried this against ghostty itself after building with zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast, using: time cat ghostty.

In GNOME terminal, it took 3.340s. In ghostty, it took 16.947s. I must be doing something wrong?