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Oh, did he start actually fixing vulnerabilities instead of insisting they aren't there while repeatedly being given PoC exploits?

In case someone didn't know, the infamous Calibre bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027

It’s interesting how singularly passionate you are about Kitty, with almost all of your comments for the last year (or longer) being about Kitty.

Don’t you have something more interesting to do with your time than to find opportunities to say: nah Kitty is better ;)

I was just finding something to be impressed about, considering it has only just gone public and open source (as opposed to a mature project with established GitHub presence and flow of contributions).

FYI: aumerle is kitty's maintainer.

i don't know why he is talking about the project as if unaffiliated.

Oh boy, that actually explains a lot! And this whole time he was accusing me of being insincere XD

Also explains why he suddenly had no time to talk further when ghostty’s author offered to have a call elsewhere in this thread. Just here to advertise his terminal.

I must say, I quite like how ghostty’s author has conducted himself. Might give ghostty a try once it’s packaged for my distro and first few rounds of bugfixes are in.

Like, this is Kovid? This has to be a violation of the site guidelines.

yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13342516

For what it's worth I have reached out to 'dang about this because I think it is completely unacceptable to do this on the site.

Would be interested to know the outcome later :)

The account has been banned.

Thanks for raising the issue with dang, and for the update!

Like Julius Caesar, who used to write about himself in the third person laudative demonstrative ("ille")?

Yup kitty revolutionized my terminal experience, hence the passion. I am sorry but since you seem to be passionate enough about ghostty to try to shill it in a article about a security vulnerability in it, I don't think you have a leg to stand on when it comes to complaining about my posts.

If you want to claim that ghostty is developed very rapidly it behoves you to do a little research and compare it against its peers before making that claim.

What a strange reply.

Kitty has been my terminal for years. I haven’t even used ghostty. I’m not shilling anything. Good grief. Try looking in a mirror.

I was making a good faith comment just adding something positive. No need to turn it into a war. It’s strange (and just wrong) that you think I need to review the development velocity of all other projects before being impressed by something. Actually, no. To be impressed by the rainbow outside my window, I need not have seen and reviewed all other rainbows.

Kitty is a great terminal and Kovid does excellent work. I have a ton of respect for him. Ghostty (disclaimer: I’m the creator) could also be and I appreciate anyone who thinks so. There doesn’t have to be a winner/loser mentality!

The big picture is to get more people to use the terminal more for cases it’s good for. Infighting amongst people who already like terminals is counter productive, in my opinion.

it's good practice to note when you're the maintainer :)

still if you insist on direct comparison, ghostty addressed 5x as many issues in half the time

Actually usable now, or still entirely insecure?

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