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An in-depth interview with Mitchell Hashimoto, creator of Vagrant, Terraform, and Ghostty, discussing his passion for terminals, building Ghostty in Zig, and the future of terminal-based applications.
A tweet praising Ghostty terminal emulator and challenging others to name a better one.
cmux is an open-source macOS terminal based on Ghostty, supporting full state restoration, vertical workspaces, AI agent notification panels, and more, solving the issue of losing terminal layouts after restarts.
devenv 2.1 introduces native support for zsh, fish, and nushell shells, replaces direnv with built-in auto-activation hooks, and integrates libghostty for improved terminal handling and coding agent support.
Rig is a macOS sidebar utility developed for the Ghostty terminal, supporting rapid creation, switching, and arrangement of terminal session windows via AppleScript and Accessibility APIs.
Mitchell Hashimoto announces that the Ghostty terminal emulator project will leave GitHub due to persistent outages and frustration, after 18 years of daily use.
MUX0, an open-source terminal multiplexer tuned for Claude Code, OpenCode and Codex, ships with sidebar/tab management, pane splitting and real-time AI status display.
The article argues that the most effective way to build software and achieve massive adoption today is through building blocks that enable AI and humans to assemble components, citing examples like Ghostty and libghostty achieving millions of users quickly.
A detailed technical post on diagnosing and fixing a major memory leak in the Ghostty terminal emulator, caused by a logic bug in scrollback pruning with non-standard page sizes. The fix has been merged and will be in the upcoming 1.3 release.
Ghostty, a terminal emulator, has become a non-profit organization fiscally sponsored by Hack Club, ensuring its open-source future and allowing tax-deductible donations.
Mitchell Hashimoto details how he used agentic AI coding tools to develop an unobtrusive macOS automatic update feature for Ghostty, walking through each AI session and his iterative process.
Mitchell Hashimoto details the rewrite of Ghostty's GTK application to fully embrace the GObject type system from Zig, improving stability, features, and memory safety, verified with Valgrind.
Mitchell Hashimoto announces eight new subsystem maintainers for the open-source Ghostty terminal emulator, outlining the subsystem governance model and goals for scaling the project.
Mitchell Hashimoto reflects on reaching version 1.0 of Ghostty, a terminal emulator he built in Zig, discussing the project's origins, the successful but controversial private beta, and his vision for the terminal.