# Libghostty 1.0

- HackerByte page: <https://hackerbyte.net/en/stories/the-first-release-of-libghostty-a-new-open-source-project-on-github-has-been-pub-50399933>
- Original source: <https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-1-0>
- Hacker News discussion: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50399933>
- Submitted to Hacker News: 2026-11-06T23:30:52.000Z

The first release of Libghostty, a new open\-source project on GitHub, has been published.

## AI-generated summary

Libghostty, a high\-performance C library for terminal emulation extracted from Ghostty, has reached version 1.0. This release signifies the stability of both the library and its C Application Binary Interface \(ABI\). It is already powering terminals for millions of users across various products, including JetBrains IDEs and Neovim, and is being adopted by numerous new projects and language bindings.

## Key points

- Libghostty 1.0 provides a stable C API and ABI for terminal emulation.
- It's used in JetBrains IDEs, impacting over 12.5 million active users.
- Neovim has an approved PR to replace libvterm with libghostty\-vt.
- KDE, Vercel Turborepo, and other projects are experimenting with or using it.
- Community bindings exist for over a dozen programming languages.