Fallthrough Ghostty & The Shell
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Oct 13, 2025 
Mitchell Hashimoto, a software engineer and creator of Ghostty, shares exciting insights about terminal emulation and his new library libxev. He discusses the growing community around Ghostty and its specific features for AI workflows. Mitchell highlights the importance of open-source governance and introduces libxev as a cross-platform event loop library. They've even envisioned future capabilities, like enhancing SSH connections with Ghostty-to-Ghostty features. His passion for diverse technical challenges and infrastructure impact shines throughout the conversation.
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Ghostty Is Shaping Terminal Features
- Ghostty is gaining real traction and influencing other projects like NeoVim by supporting modern terminal features first.
- Mitchell sees this cross-adoption improving terminal UX broadly, not just for Ghostty users.
Search Became A Meme
- Lack of search in Ghostty became a running meme that users kept bringing up repeatedly.
- Mitchell finally promised to add search in the next release around March next year.
Scrollbars Reveal Data-Structure Tradeoffs
- Ghostty's scroll bar challenge exposed a deeper data-structure tradeoff: variable-sized linked-list nodes break easy progress calculation.
- Mitchell prefers preserving performance/memory choices rather than rearchitecting just for a scrollbar.