How Mitchell Hashimoto Builds Ghostty

Ghostty creator and Hashicorp cofounder Mitchell Hashimoto talks with Richard about the development of that high-performance terminal emulator: how he's been building Ghostty, how he does native GUI development while sharing code across platforms, how LLMs have affected both the project and his love of coding, his thoughts on AI ethics, and more.

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- Ghostty nonprofit announcement - https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-non-profit

- Zig programming language - https://ziglang.org

- Roc programming language - https://www.roc-lang.org

- Zed's Windows 95-inspired launch site - https://www.windowswen.com

- Amp Code - https://ampcode.com

- Wispr Flow - https://wisprflow.ai

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