Libghostty Is Coming
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Great! iTerm2's embedded web browser (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45298793) could then run it, and iTerm2 would then have full and accurate terminal emulation.
I jest, but it sounds very interesting that not even libc is needed. Will it be all caller-allocated structs for storing state?