Interview With Mitchell Hashimoto

(Mitchell Hashimoto) is building Ghostty, Vouch and has cool thoughts about testing. He was behind a lot of cloud tooling like Vagrant, Packer, Consul, Terraform, Vault, Nomad, Waypoint. In this interview, we talk about terminals, Zig and open source. You’ve been interviewed a lot. Why do people like to interview you? In interviews, everyone comes from a different angle. Many people want to know how the software engineering to business founder mindset transition went. Then others are interested in product stuff, the work I did at Hashicorp or Ghostty now. What’s different here is there’s no known agenda coming into it; neither of us have anything to sell. What do you find so fun about terminals? Like, why Ghostty? I spent ~15 years building CLI applications (not TUIs like we see nowadays). Through that process, I accidentally learned how to color things, move cursors etc. Leaving Hashicorp, I wanted to sharpen my technical skills (where they’d grown dull from neglect) and specifically…