ghostling

Ghostling is the reference implementation showing how to do it with libghostty. It's a minimum viable terminal emulator in a single C file, using Raylib for windowing and rendering.

This isn't a terminal you'd use daily. It's a teaching tool and proof-of-concept for libghostty-vt, the zero-dependency library (not even libc) that handles VT sequence parsing, terminal state management, cursor positioning, text reflow, scrollback, and everything else a terminal needs under the hood. The same library that powers Ghostty, one of the best terminal emulators available.

MIT licensed. From the Ghostty organization.

The catch: this is a demo, not a product. If you want a terminal emulator, use Ghostty itself. Ghostling exists to show developers how to use libghostty; it's useful if you're building something that needs terminal functionality embedded in it, and pretty much useless otherwise.