Propmpt-genned Rust shell is 13x the Ghostty size

yykurtov about 4 hours ago 3 comments

I was one of the happy early Warp users. Hands down it was the best shell I ever used. Even the early preview was packed with useful dev-features more than any other shell I ever used.

Two years after they pivoted to AI platform it's now 805mb.

``` 805M /Applications/Warp.app 62M /Applications/Ghostty.app ```

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late_night_fix•about 3 hours ago

Performance,startup time and memory usage matter more in terminal apps than almost anywhere else.That's why people react strongly to this.

orf•about 1 hour ago

Why does the on-disk size matter for any of that?

flohofwoe•about 1 hour ago

...and you could probably shave off 20 MB from Ghostty because it is distributed as universal binary (does that even make sense in 2026)?

    > ls -al ghostty
    total 81992
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 floh  staff  41979664 Mar 13 17:08 ghostty
    > file ghostty
    ghostty: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures: [x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit executable     x86_64] [arm64]
    ghostty (for architecture x86_64):      Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
    ghostty (for architecture arm64):       Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64

E.g. the complete app bundle is 62 MB, of that the executable is 40 MB, but that contains both ARM and x86 code.