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I only wish after 1.3 he could hand over Ghostty to others for maintenance and move to improve other things. The software world really needs people like him to
by ksec 1y ago
I only wish after 1.3 he could hand over Ghostty to others for maintenance and move to improve other things.
The software world really needs people like him to drive things forward.
- WD-42 1y agoHow is this not driving things forward? It's the best terminal emulator I've ever used.
- vincentkriek 1y agoThe person you replied to agreed, but the maintenance could be done by other people while Hashimoto could continue to improve other technologies.
- talideon 1y agoIt's Mitchell's hobby project. If he had an interest in improving other technologies, he would. People are allowed to have hobbies.
- hoppp 1y agoThey have things for contributors, so if somebody wants to jump on it, they can
- opan 1y agoThat sounds like what Drew DeVault does (did?). He made sway, aerc, and others but largely doesn't work on them now AFAIK, passing off work to other people such as emersion.
- stavros 1y agoI just tried it, coming from Kitty, and I didn't notice many differences. What's good that I can try?
- talideon 1y agoGhostty is his hobby project: why would he do that?
- ArnoVW 1y agoBecause maintaining is not as fun as starting? Because other people can maintain a well structured project but not as many people can start something from scratch? Because his skills can be better used elsewhere?
- adrianmsmith 1y agoThat sounds like the Google philosophy though, where smart people come up with ideas and write the initial implementation (then get promoted) and other less smart people take over, and you end up with a mess that had great potential like Bazel?
- afiori 1y agoMy understanding is that this is not a philosophy at all, it is an incidental result of a bad set of misaligned incentives, where to be promoted you need to start something new or drive growth and post launch maintenance/growth is weighted much less
- koskanaiken 1y agoThis could also end up like Fabrice Bellard's projects: yes he is no longer maintaining tinycc, but as a result we are now getting ffmpeg, qemu, and more.
- robertlagrant 1y ago> Because maintaining is not as fun as starting? The previous commentor is hoping he'll move on because maintaining isn't as fun as starting? Why do you think he can't decide that for himself?
- ArnoVW 1y agoDon't know his motivations. Just gave mine.