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Creator of Ghostty talks Zig over Go

2025-01-12 Science & Technology
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Thanks to the sponsor for today's video - Graphite! Check out stacked PRs, code review tools and more: http://gt.dev/topshelf 0:00 - Intro 0:52 - CTO to Open Source 7:00 - Graphite Ad 8:10 - Future Of Ghostty 21:30 - How It Started 25:29 - Zig vs Rust 29:53 - Go’s Place In The Stack 34:28 - Managing Open Source 42:42 - Motivation 45:49 - AI 52:21 - Live Q&A Twitch https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen Discord https://discord.gg/ThePrimeagen This is also the best way to support me is to support yourself becoming a better backend engineer. ### LINKS -- Mitchell Hashimoto | https://x.com/mitchellh -- TJ DeVries | https://x.com/teej_dv?lang=en Great News? Want me to research and create video????: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePrimeagen

Top Comments (10)

@jebrengl 2025-01-12

now zig is the new cool thing?

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@Exilum 2025-01-13

I never wrote Zig, Rust, or Go and I'm having a great time through the entire talk

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@noahtah1511 2025-01-12

very strong ad i actually watched it. good job dudes

136 1 replies
@pokefreak2112 2025-01-12

Loving this podcast! It would be cool if you could get Andrew Kelly (Zig creator) on.

101 3 replies
@ThePrimeTimeagen 2025-01-13

Today's talk with Mitchell Hashimoto - we cover his career, experiences writing open source software professionally and as a passion project, as well as his thoughts after writing a lot of zig for Ghostty. We really hope you enjoy the episode! 0:00 - Intro 0:52 - CTO to Open Source 7:00 - Graphite Ad 8:10 - Future Of Ghostty 21:30 - How It Started 25:29 - Zig vs Rust 29:53 - Go’s Place In The Stack 34:28 - Managing Open Source 42:42 - Motivation 45:49 - AI 52:21 - Live Q&A Thanks to our sponsor, Graphite! Check them out for stacked pull requests, assisted PR review and more! gt.dev/topshelf

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@leptir1 2025-01-12

58:10 - 58:19 this needs to be an animated emote. It needs to. I want it.

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@ThePandaGuitar 2025-01-13

once you reach based programmer level, "i write it in X because i have fun" is all you need

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@nichohells 2025-01-12

Nobody is going to pull me out from Alacritty, ballz deep loyalty till the end.

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@The1RandomFool 2025-01-12

Dude, the ad was amazing.

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@stardawggunrocks5152 2025-01-13

Zig is the Zag she told you not to worry about

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