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   <br>ghostty
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     GPU-accelerated terminal emulator pushing modern features.
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+## About
+
+ghostty is a cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator that aims to
+push the boundaries of what is possible with a terminal emulator by exposing
+modern, opt-in features for running applications such as first-class TUI
+primitives (layouts, panels, tables, etc.).
+
+ghostty is purposely minimal and provides no multi-window or tabbing support;
+it is expected to be used with something like a tiling window manager. Long
+term, we want to add support for a richer native GUI experience, especially
+for macOS and Windows.
+
+There are a number of excellent terminal emulator options that exist
+today. ghostty isn't trying to claim to be the best in every category 
+The unique goal of ghostty is to have a platform for experimenting with modern, optional,
+non-standards-compliant features to enhance the capabilities of CLI
+applications. We aim to be the best in this category, and competitive
+in the rest.
+
+**Project Status:** Pre-Alpha. This project is not ready to be used as a
+day-to-day terminal emulator. It can't even render vim yet!
+
+## Roadmap
+
+The high-level ambitious plan for the project, in order:
+
+| # | Step | Status |
+|:---:|------|:------:|
+| 1 | Standards-compliant terminal emulation     | ❌ |
+| 2 | Competitive rendering performance (not the fastest, but fast enough) | ❌ | 
+| 3 | Basic customizability -- fonts, bg colors, etc. | ❌ | 
+| 4 | Richer windowing features -- multi-window, tabbing, panes | ❌ | 
+| 5 | Optimal rendering performance | ❌ | 
+| N | Fancy features (to be expanded upon later) | ❌ |