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I love how this guy founds + takes public + sells a multibillion company and then just goes right back to hacking. Legend.
by hackitup7 1y ago
I love how this guy founds + takes public + sells a multibillion company and then just goes right back to hacking. Legend.
- buildbot 1y agoI love ghostty and use it daily, somehow I missed it was by Mitchell Hashimoto! Very cool to see.
- krferriter 1y agoI had tried it briefly previously but in the last couple months I think I have made the permanent switch from iterm2. It's so much snappier and simpler and also reliably handles text reflowing when a long line wraps, which was a constant problem I had in iterm2, where it would insert fake newlines when copying out text that was wrapped. I also like that I can have my config in a little plaintext file and just drop it onto a new computer and get the same keybindings. I am using the terminator keybindings for creating and navigating between split panes.
- rwmj 1y agoAnd hacking on tty software too, the geekiest corner of the Unix tech stack.
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- qaq 1y ago100% Legend love Ghostty btw :)
- kortex 1y agoHashimoto is an absolute wizard, but what I find most compelling about him is his absolutely uncanny ability to segment and abstract systems and interfaces in a way for maximum composability and minimal entanglement. He's like the walking embodiment of Rich Hickey's Simple Made Easy philosophy. It's like he designs software systems in such a way that they have no choice but to operate correctly and predictably. Also I just tried Ghostty for the first time. With iTerm2 and the Zsh/Powerlevel10k theme, there's an extremely brief but perceptible lag from running a command and the render. In ghostty it feels actually instant.
- alostpuppy 1y agoI love ghostty. The only thing that is missing is a find feature which is such an odd omissions for an incredible piece of software.
- MetaMalone 1y agoThey'll be working on it soon: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/1964826929326153898 https://x.com/mitchellh/status/1964826929326153898
- Geezus_42 1y ago1.3 is slated for release in March 2026.
- horsawlarway 1y agoTo add... The missing scrollbars feel painful to me. I don't even want them for scrolling, really. I want the visual reference for: "How much content is in this window" and "Where am I in that content" I still use it daily but it means I have to switch tools for certain things, and reading log files or log output is one of the more common reasons I switch. I should probably look into trying to get the scrollback info into my statusline, No idea how easy or hard that is - so if someone has done it, feel free to shoot me pointers.
- jsrcout 1y agoSame here, scroll bars are literally the one missing feature keeping me from making Ghostty my daily driver. But the release notes roadmap mentions they will add them for 1.3. Waiting with anticipation.
- j1elo 1y agoSuggestion to use Klogg (https://github.com/variar/klogg https://github.com/variar/klogg) for reading log files. I always was on the camp of "tail -f file.log" but since discovering this app, I saw the light.
- giancarlostoro 1y agoBasically MariaDB. He (original creator of MySQL) sold MySQL for a Billion dollars (iirc) forked it, created MariaDB and kept at it. It's been what 15 years now?
- internetter 1y agoWrong person. You're thinking of Michael “Monty” Widenius, not Mitchell Hashimoto
- karimf 1y agoI think op is telling a similar story, not necessarily the same person.
- giancarlostoro 1y agoYou are correct. I tried to rewrite my statement after I was being downvoted. English is not my first language to the surprise of most.
- deadbabe 1y agoWow, I wonder what his everyday life must be like.
- nosequel 1y agoAlso, in real life, he's a genuine nice guy. I had lunch with him and Armon at a conference when they worked at Kiip, before they founded Hashicorp. Mitchell (to me) was the proper hacker. He just loved everything about computing. This particular conference was about distributed systems and he was just geeking out on everything. I walked away thinking that no matter what they did, they'd probably be successful. I was extremely happy to find Ghostty and have been using it ever since.
- oblio 1y agoYou made me look into HashiCorp again. It's a great company from a developers perspective, in terms of the many useful tools created: Vagrant, Packer, Nomad, Consul, etc However their financials are... LOL Revenue US$583 million (2024) Operating income US$−254 million (2024) 50% loss margin :-)))
- n4bz0r 1y agoThis can't be right. How are they still afloat? Actually, that's the question (or rather the feeling) I had even before seeing these numbers. Just by reading the docs and looking at everything they built (and how they built it) made me wonder if they spend more than they make. That's a really funny feeling I never had before. Like, surely economies can't be that forgiving when it comes to polishing things. Is that what's happening to the company? Mere overspending?
- godelski 1y agoI just want to say, what a dream. To have wealth and be able to create projects for the sake of going the projects. To not have to make the concessions of quality for profits. There's an old Knuth quote: > In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field. And I think we're seeing more and more that these projects made with love are successful. That without the hyper fixation on money we can build good projects that make big changes in a world. In some sense I'm a bit envious of Mitchell but truthfully these types of things make me more question how we've constructed our society and economy. It shouldn't require one to start with wealth to be able to build things that have such an impact. What needs to be changed where we can live up to what Knuth proclaimed. I'm sure all of us have had experiences where were we given the time (and usually not much) we could make things so much better. But we make many sacrifices when we rush. Which leads to more good advice by Knuth > If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy. At what point do we push back? We see that the people we really look up to did things so differently. Knuth himself expressed how detail obsessed he was, and such a claim is common among the grey breads. Of course, things change, but are we creating a world with no wizards? Are we creating a world where we reward people for solving problems and making our lives easier? Or are we just maximizing some score of a pointless game? I'd love to live in a world with a thousand more Mitchells, following their passions without the burden of needing to justify decisions to a board who has no interest in quality. How do we create that world? Like you said, what a legend. But, how do we make more legends?
- mikestorrent 1y agoWhat we are missing is a sponsorship model that is able to fun this kind of thing. It's not infeasible - look at university grants dispersement as an example of the overwrought predecessor of this. A ton of money moves through such institutions, and funds a lot of interesting projects. One thing I've been envisioning is something like a "certified B corporation" style qualification that companies can get that indicates they contribute financially back to open source commensurate to the amount of it they consume to run their core business. If everything you do runs through open source software, in a moral sense, one can make the argument that you owe something back to it.
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- ivanstepanovftw 1y agoYeah, it is so hard to be born and raised in California. I cannot imagine what he went through. Hero.
- johnisgood 1y agoRelated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45056901 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45056901 From the author himself: "My company had an exit, I did well financially. This is not a secret. I'm extremely privileged and thankful for it.". Honestly, good for him [for doing well financially] and for admitting that he is privileged, and above all, being thankful for it.