Shitty
fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours
Details
- External ID
- 49149326
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Shittp
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Aug. 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 173
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9657258064516129
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- fast terminal emulator with memory-unsafe optimization
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Writing a high-performance terminal emulator from scratch requires deep systems programming, low-level OS PTY handling, custom VT/ANSI escape parsers, and GPU rendering pipelines.
What it would actually take: The architecture involves a native C/Rust/C++ application managing POSIX PTY/conpty processes, an ultra-fast VT100/xterm state machine parser, and GPU-accelerated glyph caching and rendering via Metal/Vulkan/OpenGL. The hard part is achieving raw throughput and low latency while managing concurrent ring buffers, font shaping (HarfBuzz/FreeType), and memory-level micro-optimizations. This requires specialized systems engineering and low-level graphics expertise.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Konsole, Kitty terminal emulator
Concerns raised: High VRAM usage (75MB) compared to non-GPU-accelerated alternatives, GPL license restrictions and philosophical disagreements, Missing kitty graphics protocol implementation, Description omits significant modern terminal interface features
Feature requests: Implement kitty graphics protocol, Reduce VRAM consumption for GPU acceleration
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 480 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #17 of 481 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 275 days after the earliest competitor.
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- LiteParse v2, now in Rust 100x faster · hn · 2026-05-28 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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- Z-Jail · hn · 2026-07-01 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- I Forked MinIO Object Storage and Made It Run Faster · hn · 2026-07-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- buildx_gc · github · 2026-09-14 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Yet another minimal and lightweight terminal multiplexer written in Go. · hn · 2026-08-27 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Cachekit · hn · 2026-01-14 · 47 upvotes · similarity 0.46
Other launches for this product
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