alt Hacker News> Building Ghostty from source is not recommended for most users.
Why is that? It reminds me of the XFree86 times when building from source was some unstable, fancy thing that was severely frowned upon.
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m1keil • yesterday at 7:22 PM
Here's a delicious meal we prepared for you. We don't recommend you going to the kitchen and trying to prepare it all over again.
..but you can!
Nothing controversial here.
Probably something to do with Zig. Zig changes so quickly that if you're not using exactly the compiler that they are using, it's unlikely to work.