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Building a Terminal in Zig and Swift with Mitchell Hashimoto

Software Unscripted

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The Importance of Learning to Do Things Right

The terminal started out depending on lib uv as my main event loop thing it was a c dependency. I ended up writing a pure zig event loop cross-platform and that doubled the time to reach the end. It's not just about making this nice it for myself but also thinking about if I solve this problem then nobody has to deal with us anymore or like everybody can benefit from like enjoying this better experience.

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