Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig
Mitchell Hashimoto, the creator of several foundational DevOps tools, discusses his transition to building Ghostty, a new terminal emulator. He explains his motivation for learning Zig and focusing on low-level systems programming after years of distributed systems work.
Why it matters
It provides a rare look into the technical motivations of a prominent software engineer and the current trends in systems programming languages like Zig.
Mitchell Hashimoto was behind Vagrant , Packer , Consul , Terraform , Vault , Nomad , Waypoint and now builds Ghostty and Vouch .
The article is a straightforward interview focusing on technical interests and career history.
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