- Mitchell Hashimoto, creator of various DevOps tools and currently working on Ghostty and Vouch, discusses his projects, terminal development, and open-source philosophy.
- He explains that interviews with him often focus on his transition from software engineering to business founder or on his products like HashiCorp tools and Ghostty.
- Hashimoto started Ghostty to improve his technical skills, explore GPU programming, desktop systems programming, and learn Zig, leading to a fast, feature-rich, cross-platform terminal emulator.
- He believes terminals should be optimized for text-based applications with clear security and composability, rather than pushing them to extremes like full application platforms.