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zed
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ghostty
👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
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git-credential-manager
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NOTE:
The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better cmux alternative or higher similarity.
cmux discussion
cmux reviews and mentions
Posts with mentions or reviews of cmux.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-06-11.
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Show HN: Boo – screen-style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty
I think Cmux is the incumbent in the "screen-style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty" - any key differentiators here? https://cmux.com/
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Tools I'm Using in 2026 (and what I've stopped using from 2025)
Warp is still my terminal of choice. It's awesome. Their Oz Agent Platform is amazing. I've tried cmux, it sucks, just use Warp, seriously. Anyone who raves about cmux just hasn't tried Warp yet. I went through a phase where I didn't pay for Warp anymore, but this is coming to an end, they just give you so much, and if you want to use BYOK (Bring Your Own Key), you gotta pay for at least the lowest tier.
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Building a native terminal for AI coding agents in Rust + GPUI
This is a post-mortem, not a launch post. Paneflow is a native terminal workspace, splits, panes, branch-aware workspaces, session restore, built in pure Rust on top of Zed's GPUI framework and the upstream alacritty_terminal crate. It started as a port of cmux, a macOS-only Swift/AppKit project, and the Rust rewrite forced a string of decisions I had no good intuition for at the start. I want to walk through the ones that mattered: which UI frameworks I tried and rejected, how the GPUI/alacritty boundary actually looks, how dev-server detection works under the hood, the N-ary layout tree that replaced binary splits, the cross-platform PTY plumbing, the JSON-RPC control plane that makes agents first-class, and four lessons that surprised me.
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Toward a more POSIX-Friendly PowerShell experience
If you're doing agentic coding, however, you may want to opt for an AI-integrated multiplexing shell. On the Mac, I use cmux for this. On the PC, Wave is the closest quality alternative I've found, which is my overall recommendation.
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Warp is now Open-Source
I noticed that too. I’ve been using cmux (based on ghostty, has a more basic UI) and have been happy with it: https://cmux.com/
- Cmux – The Terminal Built for Multitasking
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Show HN: Worktree-based TUI management for Agents
I now it's "yours", but do you know how you differ from for example https://cmux.com/ which I'm happily using right now?
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cmux: The Terminal Built for AI Coding Agents
It's built by Manaflow, a two-person Y Combinator startup. In just two months, it hit 10,000 stars on GitHub. Mitchell Hashimoto, the creator of Ghostty, called it "a huge success story for libghostty."
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I Ditched VS Code for a Terminal. My RAM Thanked Me.
cmux is where everything lives. It's a macOS-native terminal built on top of Ghostty's rendering engine, but designed specifically for managing multiple AI agent sessions.
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Show HN: Horizon – GPU-accelerated infinite-canvas terminal in Rust
This is fun! I switched to https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux for a while, but had to switch back to Ghostty due to its unreliability, high memory and CPU usage and such.
This makes a lot of sense, but... it'd be great to allow pulling out of a canvas into a second canvas for those of us with multiple screens (you at least end up needing one window per screen).
In general it feels like... more structure rather than less feels like it'd be the smoothest experience. I'll play with your Ctrl+K shortcut and see if it ends up feeling like I can get everywhere that I need quickly.
But... nice work!
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manaflow-ai/cmux is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of cmux is Swift.
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