“The updated Terminal will support 24-bit color and Powerline fonts, according to Apple’s State of the Platforms presentation at WWDC25.” (Source)
Pretty good news!
“The updated Terminal will support 24-bit color and Powerline fonts, according to Apple’s State of the Platforms presentation at WWDC25.” (Source)
Pretty good news!
Hm, pretty late to the game and still way behind most dedicated terminals like iTerm or my absolute favorite, GPU rendered and nuclear-batteries included Kitty… Kitty has supported powerline fonts since forever, and even better you can specify specific fonts for known unicode codeblocks, thus you can use your favorite font (that may not have terminal-useful characters) and inject them from a separate font (a guided font fallback, this even works cross-platform, so I use emoji with an apple font on macOS and noto font on Ubuntu).
I’m thinking of giving the new kid on the block, ghostty a twirl when I get some geek time…
You’re correct, of course. And while I didn’t expect Terminal to surpass iTerm, let alone some of the new kids on the block, it started to feel kinda fossilized. Even compared to the Windows (10!) Terminal.
I’m still happy. Because it means, as long as the target Mac runs macOS 26+, now there’s a common baseline across Unix / Windows / MacOS in terms of color support and stuff. No fiddling around, no installation of whatever extra necessary.
Right it is an important component of macOS. I assume Apple are feeling quite a bit of heat from Microsoft, who are throwing tons of development at *nix ish toolchain workflows. Their terminal app is very shiny and new, their coding font Cascadia Code is lovely, WSL means native Linux performance and toolchains running smoothly, they have really blurred the borders of Windows to make a great experience for developers (general developers, not platform-specific app devs). Apple had a huge headstart with a POSIX foundation, and at one point it was amusing to see mostly macbooks at Windows developers conferences, but Apple have sat on their behinds and let these slowly rot. I think the new-love shown to terminal and the new containerisation framework are an acknowledgement that developers can’t be taken for granted…
By the way, ghostty is awesome, think I will stick to kitty but ghostty is fully metal and definitely a more native experience for anyone wanting a modern terminal experience…
That’s why I always cheer for the other team, it prevents mine from getting lazy.
I like this rationale