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Mitchell Hashimoto on building Ghostty and the future of terminals
Mitchell Hashimoto, creator of Vagrant, Terraform, and other HashiCorp tools, discusses his new terminal emulator Ghostty built in Zig. He explains his motivation to sharpen technical skills in GPU and systems programming, and why he believes terminals should remain a specialized platform for text-based applications. The interview covers open source, terminal ecosystem challenges, and his vision for better composability and security in CLI tools.
Meridian48 take
Hashimoto's deep dive into terminal internals highlights a neglected area of developer tooling, but his skepticism about pushing terminals too far offers a grounded counterpoint to the trend of making everything a web app.
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