Ratty — On Our Radar

Status: 🟡 Under observation
Why we're talking about it: Orhun Parmaksız’s attempt to turn the terminal into a 3D canvas using the Bevy game engine is generating significant noise across developer circles (source: HN).

What we know:
- Ratty implements the Ratty Graphics Protocol (RGP) to anchor 3D models (.obj/.glb) to specific terminal cells using Rust-based Bevy and Ratatui (GitHub).
- Current architecture is experimental and suffers from a performance bottleneck caused by a mandatory GPU-to-CPU readback bridge (Lib.rs).
- The project is at version 0.1.0-rc.0 and carries substantial dependency bloat from the underlying game engine and wgpu stack (Lib.rs).
- The name "Ratty" shares an identifier with several Remote Access Trojans, causing false positives in enterprise security software (GitHub).

The unknowns:
- We don't know how 3D assets are handled over remote SSH connections or if a local proxy is required for rendering (GitHub Documentation).
- There are no independent benchmarks comparing its resource consumption and power draw to established GPU terminals like Ghostty or Kitty (UsedBy Dossier).

This article will be updated when we have more data. Until then, proceed with caution.

Ship clean code,
Marcus.