How Mitchell Hashimoto Builds Ghostty

How Mitchell Hashimoto Builds Ghostty

From Software Unscripted by Richard Feldman

February 17, 2026 · 1h 4m

About this episode

Mitchell Hashimoto discusses the development of Ghostty and the impact of LLMs on coding and AI ethics.

Ghostty creator and Hashicorp cofounder Mitchell Hashimoto talks with Richard about the development of that high-performance terminal emulator: how he's been building Ghostty, how he does native GUI development while sharing code across platforms, how LLMs have affected both the project and his love of coding, his thoughts on AI ethics, and more. This episode was sponsored by mailtrap.io - modern email delivery for developers. Try Mailtrap for free: https://l.rw.rw/software_unscripted_1 Patreon supporters get ad-free episodes! https://www.patreon.com/SoftwareUnscripted - Ghostty nonprofit announcement - https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-non-profit - Zig programming language - https://ziglang.org - Roc programming language - https://www.roc-lang.org - Zed's Windows 95-inspired launch site - https://www.windowswen.com - Amp Code - https://ampcode.com - Wispr Flow - https://wisprflow.ai Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Richard Feldman

Guest: Mitchell Hashimoto

Topics covered

  • terminal emulator
  • native GUI development
  • AI ethics
  • coding
  • LLMs
  • software development

Keywords

  • Ghostty
  • Mitchell Hashimoto
  • Hashicorp
  • AI ethics
  • terminal emulator
  • native GUI
  • software development

Sponsors

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Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hashicorp, Ghostty, Zig programming language, Roc programming language, Zed's Windows 95-inspired launch site, Amp Code, Wispr Flow

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