Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig

kept by eddie jul 17

Mitchell Hashimoto discusses building Ghostty, a fast GPU‑accelerated terminal, using Zig for performance and safety, and shares lessons on language choice and open‑source development.

Fast and Hard Code
LLMs diminish the need to learn language specifics, letting developers choose languages like Rust and Zig for speed and size, and tackle complex low‑level projects without deep expertise.
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bun/docs/PORTING.md at claude/phase-a-port · oven-sh/bun
This document defines the rules and idiom map for porting the Bun JavaScript runtime from Zig to Rust in a two-phase process: Phase A produces a draft Rust file, and Phase B makes it compile.
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Ghostty is leaving GitHub
Ghostty creator Mitchell Hashimoto is moving the project off GitHub due to frequent outages and declining service quality since Microsoft's acquisition.
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My AI Adoption Journey – Mitchell Hashimoto
Mitchell Hashimoto details his phased AI adoption journey, finding efficiency by moving from chatbots to agents, outsourcing reliable tasks, and engineering harnesses to prevent errors.
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How I run 4–8 parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs — Manuel Schipper
Describes a system for running 4–8 parallel coding agents using tmux, Markdown feature designs, and Claude Code slash commands to manage a development loop.
also on Ghostty, #cli, #developer-tools