Mitchell Hashimoto on Building Ghostty in Zig: Simplicity, Control, and Terminal Performance
The HashiCorp co-founder explains why he chose Zig over Rust for Ghostty, the technical challenges of terminal emulator development, and what systems programming looks like in 2026.
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