> This is Google v Oracle all over again - are APIs copyrightable?

No, it is completely different.

Claude was trained on chardet, anything built by Claude would fail the clean-room reimplementation test.

Claude must be trained on chardet already, it worked on chardet's code to optimize or rewrite it to be much better. This is the textbook definition of derivative works.

just installed ghostty, looks cool. but my honest question is how it is significantly better than iterm2 to justify such a switch? I am aware of the fact that it is faster, uses less memory, various configurations is more straight forward. but is that all?

I have the feeling that I must be missing something big here.

> not the year 1985

US launched attack on Iran today using an aircraft carrier constructed in 1984.

> The other 50% know that it's clearly independent and are tired of the whole act by the Chinese government.

Chinese living in a foreign country, or Chinese willing to discuss such issues with you in China is a highly biased sample set. That is high school math you suppose to learn at the age of 17.