I'm not sure why they couldn't put that on the front page. Or at least on the front page of the documentation.

As it stands now, the front page is pretty useless if you never heard of ghostty. It's a ghost in a terminal? And there's tty in the name.... so is it a program to show ghosts in your terminal?

Absolutely agree, even if it was just the tagline on the first page of the documentation - "Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration." - underneath the "screenshot" and above the buttons on the homepage.

On mobile I thought this thing was some ascii art game for a hot minute before I tried clicking on the download link. Seems silly to admit that but there you have it.

I'd never heard of it before today, so yeah, my first thought was exactly what you postulated. "Cool? Maybe it's a tool for generating animations in the terminal?"

*edit - oh, no Windows support for now (my hands are tied at work).