Mitchell Hashimoto
Special guest
Mitchell is a developer based in Los Angeles, CA, and the co-founder of HashiCorp. He was part of the initial engineering team behind many of the company’s core products, including Vagrant, Packer, Consul, Terraform, Vault, Nomad, and Waypoint. Over his time at HashiCorp, he served as CEO for approximately four years, CTO for five years, and spent two years as an individual contributor before departing the company in 2023.
Today, Mitchell focuses most of his time on Ghostty, a new cross-platform terminal emulator.
Mitchell Hashimoto has been a guest on 1 episode.
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Ghostty with Mitchell Hashimoto
April 10th, 2025 | Season 4 | 23 mins 17 secs
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Mitchell Hashimoto, founder of HashiCorp, joins us to talk about his latest project, Ghostty—a terminal that’s fast, feature-rich, and truly cross-platform. Mitchell shares the vision behind Ghostty, its architecture built around the libghosty core, how it's tackling long-standing limitations in terminal emulation, and why features like quake-style dropdowns matter more than you'd think.
We also explore how the community can get involved and the future potential of Ghosty as a platform for modern text-based applications. Tune in to explore the innovative features that make Ghosty a standout cross-platform terminal!