From iTerm2 to Ghostty Terminal Migration

Why I finally traded iTerm2’s features for Ghostty’s GPU renderer

There’s a moment every developer remembers. Not the first time they wrote “Hello World” — that’s romanticized nonsense. I mean the first time you opened a real terminal, saw a blinking cursor staring back at you, and thought: “Okay, this is where things actually happen.” For me, that moment started on Linux, carried over to macOS, and eventually led me down a rabbit hole of terminal emulators that ended — after nearly a decade — with me finally breaking up with iTerm2. ...

March 9, 2026 · 14 min · TechLife