Libghostty is coming
Mitchell HashimotoLibghostty Is ComingSeptember 22, 2025Over two years ago, in one of my first public talks about Ghostty, I shared my vision for libghostty: an embeddable library for any application to embed their own fully functional, modern, and fast terminal emulator. Libghostty is finally starting to take shape, and I’m excited to share more details about my plans for it. The first libghostty library will be libghostty-vt: a zero-dependency library that provides an API for parsing terminal sequences and maintaining terminal state, extracted directly from Ghostty’s real-world proven core. It doesn’t even require libc! Disclaimer: This post is predominantly a roadmap update for libghostty and announcing what will be the first shippable component of it. The Zig API is available for…
