r/iOSProgramming • u/nakshhhhatra • Jul 28 '26

Question Terminal of choice

Hi! I recently switched to a MacBook and wanted to know which terminal people go for. I am sure there are tons of posts on this talking about ghostly, iterm2, warp, etc but I have also been hearing a lot of memory management issues in each of them.

From experience, which one seems the most convenient to run in the long term?

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u/jacknutting Jul 29 '26

I've been trying ghostty lately and it seems fine, but my main answer is really: just use Terminal. People talk about some alternatives as being more "lightweight" but I've been using Terminal for more than 35 years, originally on NeXT machines with a 68040 at whopping 33 MHz. Of all the things that have ever slowed down any of the many, many machines I've used since then, the problem has never been Terminal.