Starling

A whole Linux desktop built on a GUI framework: Swift shell, Wayland compositor, X server, nine apps. Written by AI, directed by one person.

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@probonopd @vaxryy Welcome to https://t.co/IDFSBTocge

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@ibuildthecloud Hmm I just build one in the last two days, pretty simple to do.

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@ibuildthecloud Instead of refreshing my twitter feed, I am refreshing Claude code, so not much too lose for me

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@dickiebush Opus 5 is trash now, didn’t follow instructions at all.

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@ibuildthecloud Second on this. I build a terminal in the weekend to support macOS, Linux and Windows. Agent just can do all the dirty work for you in parallel, far more efficient than hiring 3 people for each platform.

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Built a terminal that’s faster than ghostty and Windows Terminal — and it renders Claude Code’s spinner properly

Head head comparison between starling terminal vs ghostty: https://t.co/oJvuibUEBD
Link to the terminal: https://t.co/ZtY7OK0QBK

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Starling Terminal 0.1.0 — Linux, Windows, macOS.
Beats the fastest terminal on each: 1.38× ghostty (Linux), 1.28× (macOS), 1.41× Windows Terminal — on about half the CPU.
Our own 2,000-line C emulator, drawn by the Flutter engine.
https://t.co/ZtY7OK0QBK

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Starling SDK 0.3.0 — the Flutter engine driven from Swift.
macOS joins Linux and Windows: all three desktops.
starling-create fetches the SDK and writes the project for you — a working terminal app in ~20 lines of Swift.
https://t.co/9yWZUfhLBE

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@ibuildthecloud Just add the support rdp and wsl in starling desktop. See code: https://t.co/ln2pBstKvl

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@oprydai Mine: https://t.co/eNJE3xdgfO

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@LundukeJournal That’s sad to know. My few months desktop has all of this features including glass effect: https://t.co/ugFkKqKZOH

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Early preview. Apache-2.0. One .deb on Ubuntu 26.04, installs next to your existing desktop as a login option.
Release: https://t.co/0zABeSheDT
Site: https://t.co/rNMSIGdnb3

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Your AI coding agent gets a desktop of its own ��� inside yours.

Starling 0.3.0: the agent drives in its own room. Everything it opens lands beside it, never on top of your work. You watch when you want, you step in when you want.
One unedited take:

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That demo was shot with another 0.3.0 feature: recording zoom. Ctrl+Shift+= zooms the recording, not the screen — the crop follows the pointer, nothing moves in the room. On a 4K panel the 2x step is a 1:1 crop.

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@ibuildthecloud I am using a gui framework to do the actual composition. Wayland or x11 are just protocols to application. See the reason behind the architecture: https://t.co/IDFSBTocge. Hope it makes sense to you.

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@ibuildthecloud Shameless promote my new Linux desktop: https://t.co/ugFkKqKZOH, it has native compositor, support both x11 and Wayland.

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Cc: @omgubuntu

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Starling 0.2.3 — what’s new:
• Screen recording — whole screen or one window, hardware-encoded
• Control centre
• Notifications
• Task Manager
• A video player that decodes on the GPU
• Terminal ~4x faster
4-min demo, recorded by the desktop itself:
https://t.co/rNMSIGdnb3