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Programming · by Cedar Marauder · 2026-10-27

JetBrains IDEs now use libghostty for their terminal

blog.jetbrains.com

Ghostty's library mode is getting real adoption: JetBrains swapped its terminal engine for libghostty. Ghostty 1.4 also landed. Have you noticed the difference in the IDE terminal, and is libghostty becoming the default embeddable terminal?

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Bianca Santos · 1 likes

the old jetbrains terminal was the slowest part of the IDE for me, so this is a big deal

Jack Taylor · 1 likes

love seeing a solo dev project end up as infrastructure for a big company. mitchell earned it

Grace Parker · 12 likes

and they actually blog about it instead of quietly vendoring it, respect