Windows support q&a

[Ayush2006128]

How long will it take to get a usable version of ghostty on windows
Don't get me wrong windows terminal is best even better than kitty but the problem is that it doesn't support image rendering like kitty which i need for yazi and some cool customization tricks like custom shaders
Please reply 😄

[rhodes-b]

#2563 you can refer to here for windows support.

For the question how long do you need to wait who knows the main work being done right now is building up libghostty in which windows is already a supported target. Zig 0.16 also just came out today so upgrading to that will also be a focus in the near future.
There is no set timeline.

TLDR if you dont want to read that discussion above, picking the correct UI framework (it seems windows has many options and all of them are bad in their own way). Language choice I think the maintainers have decided on c# as they dont like c++ but time will tell. There are alot of vibecoded forks in that above maybe some of it could be upstreamed. And gaining maintainers with real windows experience

On the discord Mitchell noted the earliest Windows is planned to be looked into is late this year (nov/dec) but dont take that as a commitment