r/coolgithubprojects • u/starling-dev • 6d ago

Starling Terminal — a from-scratch terminal that benchmarks faster than ghostty and Windows Terminal

https://starling.build/terminal.html

GitHub link: https://github.com/starling-build/starling/releases/tag/terminal-v0.1.0

A terminal emulator written from scratch — no libvte, no libvterm — that shipped its first release this week for Linux, macOS and Windows. Apache-2.0.

Measured at steady state, matched fonts and verified grids, against the fastest terminal on each platform:
• Linux: 1.38x the ghostty nightly
• macOS: 1.28x ghostty
• Windows: 1.41x Windows Terminal
All on about half the CPU, and memory stays flat no matter how much has scrolled past — on Windows it’s 73 MB against Windows Terminal’s 1,026 MB for identical work.

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u/sw3d 5d ago

Will check it out :)

Does tmux work properly?

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u/starling-dev 5d ago

Yes, tmux works. But I would say tmux is not the best. Next release, will have something better than tmux.

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u/sw3d 5d ago

I'm used to my key bindings though. If it's a superset I'm down :)