Kitty 0.50 was released this week, updating the GPU‑accelerated terminal emulator with a handful of bug fixes and new configuration knobs. The changelog, hosted at https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/, lists the…

The release attracted 219 up‑votes on Hacker News, with 137 comments dissecting the changes. Contributors praised the reduced latency for large outputs but noted that the new configuration syntax breaks a few legacy d…

Kitty’s niche is performance‑first users who run heavy workloads in the shell. By moving more work to the GPU, the emulator sidesteps the bottlenecks of traditional CPU‑bound terminals. The 0.50 update does not add he…

The ISO C++ committee voted to disapprove the draft for C++26 in a recent meeting, according to a blog post by Andreas Fertig dated November 2026. The post, https://andreasfertig.com/blog/2026/11/cpp26-dis-failed-how-…