--- title: Libghostty Is Coming | daily.dev description: Mitchell Hashimoto announces libghostty, an embeddable library that allows any application to integrate a fully functional terminal emulator. The first... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/libghostty-is-coming-cytt7hhof twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Libghostty Is Coming | daily.dev og:description: Mitchell Hashimoto announces libghostty, an embeddable library that allows any application to integrate a fully functional terminal emulator. The first... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/libghostty-is-coming-cytt7hhof og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/CytT7hhOF.png og:image:alt: Libghostty Is Coming og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Libghostty Is Coming **[Mitchell Hashimoto](https://daily.dev/sources/mitchellh)** · 7 min read · 5 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Mitchell Hashimoto announces libghostty, an embeddable library that allows any application to integrate a fully functional terminal emulator. The first component, libghostty-vt, is a zero-dependency library for parsing terminal sequences and maintaining terminal state. The project aims to solve the widespread problem of incomplete and buggy terminal emulation implementations across various applications, from IDEs to web consoles. Currently available as a Zig module with a C API in development, libghostty plans to expand into a family of libraries covering input handling, GPU rendering, and platform-specific widgets. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#cli](https://daily.dev/tags/cli), [#zig](https://daily.dev/tags/zig) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/libghostty-is-coming-cytt7hhof) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Libghostty Is Coming","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/libghostty-is-coming-cytt7hhof","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/libghostty-is-coming-cytt7hhof"},"datePublished":"2025-09-22T19:11:09.801Z","dateModified":"2026-10-14T02:25:22.224Z","description":"Mitchell Hashimoto announces libghostty, an embeddable library that allows any application to integrate a fully functional terminal emulator. The first...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--OHB84bZF--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2010","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--OHB84bZF--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2010","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Mitchell Hashimoto","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Mitchell Hashimoto","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--9zTxbLer--/f_auto/v1735476334/logos/mitchellh","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/mitchellh"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/libghostty-is-coming-cytt7hhof","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":5},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"cli,zig","timeRequired":"PT7M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Mitchell Hashimoto","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/mitchellh"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Libghostty Is Coming"}]} ```