This has been a passion project of his for the past 2-years and he’s completely MIT open sourced it. He’s spent a lot of time thinking and ensuring this project can persist in the future even without him.
Many people have tremendous respect for Mitchell’s technical abilities, as well as hugely respect how he operates (genuinely nice person and thinks about things long-term and does the hard work for sustainability).
- created by Mitchell (founder of HashiCorp)
- it’s developed in Zig (and Mitchell recently pledge $300k to Zig foundation)
- uses native UI (which is super rare for cross platform app)
- amazingly performant. e.g. https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/111919642467789362
- has lots of amazing small details like below
https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/113330304084905500
https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/113443002518588524
https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/113166930440000852
This has been a passion project of his for the past 2-years and he’s completely MIT open sourced it. He’s spent a lot of time thinking and ensuring this project can persist in the future even without him.
Many people have tremendous respect for Mitchell’s technical abilities, as well as hugely respect how he operates (genuinely nice person and thinks about things long-term and does the hard work for sustainability).
Lots more to read at: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-is-coming