Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig

Mitchell Hashimoto, creator of popular infrastructure tools like Terraform and Vagrant, built Ghostty, a fast and cross-platform terminal emulator, to sharpen his technical skills in GPU programming, systems programming, and the Zig language. Rather than pushing terminals to become universal application platforms, Hashimoto believes text-based applications should remain focused on their strengths—speed, simplicity, and composability—while other platforms like browsers handle different use cases.