Ratty

Judgement

What it is

Developer tool

What it does

A GPU-rendered terminal emulator built with Bevy and Ratatui that can show inline 3D objects and switch to a 3D view of the terminal.

Adopt it when

You want to experiment with 3D graphics in the terminal or build on its rendering ideas.

Watch out

It is a six-month-old novelty project; use an established terminal for daily work.

Ready for

Experimental

Runs as

Desktop app

Built with

Rust, Bevy, Ratatui and wgpu

How established

Young: started 6 months ago, latest release v0.6.0.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-06 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Ratty → Rust → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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