engineering-tradeoffs
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A Terminal That Takes a Second to Start Is "Unusable"? Ghostty Author Says That Slowness Is on Purpose
Someone called Ghostty "unusable" for taking a second to launch. Its author Mitchell Hashimoto replied with a textbook tradeoff lesson: the slow cold start is not a bug — it is cost paid up front to buy eight smooth hours. Are you optimizing a button you press once a day?