Ghosttying Go
What's a terminal? Why is it being emulated? On this week's episode, Matt and Kris are joined by Mitchell Hashimoto to discuss his newest project Ghostty, the Zig programming language, thoughts and feelings about Go, and more. As always, catch some Unpopular Opinions at the end of the episode.
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Notes & Links:
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Notes & Links:
- How to reset the terminal in Ghostty (from 04:41)
- Sunsetting Cursed Terminal Emulation (from 18:22)
- XTGETTCAP in Ghostty (from 23:31)
- ncurses terminfo database (from 25:14)
- Gnome VTE (from 36:55)
- Mongoose embedded web server (from 52:28)
- libuv (from 52:40)
- freetype (from 52:44)
- HarfBuzz (from 52:45)
- Pixman (from 52:48)
- libxev (from 52:58)
- z2d (from 53:01)
- Scripto Continua (from 01:25:26)
Chapters:
- (00:05) - Intro
- (00:39) - Become a subscriber: https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe
- (01:52) - What is Ghostty?
- (03:47) - Consequences of cat'ing binaries
- (04:43) - Ghostty's journey to release
- (06:47) - Ghostty's team structure
- (08:22) - What terminal are we using?
- (09:03) - Ghostty's Dev Tools
- (14:53) - What are escape sequences?
- (16:57) - What are terminal emulators emulating?
- (19:50) - The ossification of SSH & Terminfo
- (27:26) - Ghostty Terminfo workaround
- (28:38) - Shell in the Ghostty
- (34:44) - libghostty
- (38:59) - The most difficult part in implementing Ghostty
- (42:35) - Why Zig?
- (46:41) - How to build with Zig
- (55:35) - The Zig Standard Library
- (59:00) - Social feedback creates bleh languages
- (01:02:52) - Go's place in the modern world
- (01:11:56) - On handling feedback
- (01:19:45) - Join the Ghostty development community
- (01:21:35) - Mitchell's thoughts on GitHub (subscriber only)
- (01:23:02) - Mitchell's Unpop
- (01:24:21) - Matt's Unpop
- (01:26:37) - Kris' Duolingo Streak
- (01:29:29) - Kris' Unpop
- (01:33:25) - Outro
Socials:
Creators and Guests
Host
Matthew Sanabria
Matthew is an engineering leader focused on building reliable, scalable, and observable systems. Matthew is known for using his breadth and depth of experience to add value in minimal context situations and help great people become great engineers through mentoring. Matthew serves the Go community as a member of GoBridge. In his spare time, Matthew spends time with his family, helps grow his wife's chocolate business, works on home improvement projects, and reads technical resources to learn and tinker.
Guest
Mitchell Hashimoto
Mitchell is a developer living in Los Angeles, CA. He previously co-founded HashiCorp and now spends most of his time working on Ghostty, a new terminal emulator.
