From empty repo to a functional minimal standalone terminal based on libghostty in less than 2 hours, presenting Ghostling! ~600 lines of C and you get extremely accurate, performant, and proven terminal emulation. Every program on earth that needs any subset of terminal functionality and can now easily get it.

github.com/ghostty-org/ghostli

Feature list:
- Resize with text reflow
- Full 24-bit color and 256-color palette support
- Bold, italic, and inverse text styles
- Unicode and multi-codepoint grapheme handling (no shaping or layout)
- Keyboard input with modifier support (Shift, Ctrl, Alt, Super)
- Kitty keyboard protocol support
- Mouse tracking (X10, normal, button, and any-event modes)
- Mouse reporting formats (SGR, URxvt, UTF8, X10)
- Scroll wheel support (viewport scrollback or forwarded to applications)
- Scrollbar with mouse drag-to-scroll
- Focus reporting (CSI I / CSI O)
- And more. Effectively all the terminal emulation features supported by Ghostty!

The libghostty C API is not formally released, but I built this project to prove its ready to go. ๐Ÿ˜Ž github.com/ghostty-org/ghostli

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