# Mitchell Hashimoto on Building Ghostty in Zig: Simplicity, Control, and Terminal Performance

DevFeed: [Mitchell Hashimoto on Building Ghostty in Zig: Simplicity, Control, and Terminal Performance](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/mitchell-hashimoto-on-building-ghostty-in-zig-simplicity-control-and-terminal-performance-56233.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.developersdigest.tech/blog/mitchell-hashimoto-ghostty-zig-interview>)

Author: Developers Digest

Published: 2026-07-10T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Developers Digest](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/developers-digest.md>)

Topics: [Zig](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/zig.md>), [Terminal](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/terminal.md>), [Emulator](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/emulator.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [Rust](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rust.md>)

Tags: [developer-tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-tools.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [emulator](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/emulator.md>), [ghostty](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ghostty.md>), [hacker-news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hacker-news.md>), [hashicorp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hashicorp.md>), [mitchell-hashimoto](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mitchell-hashimoto.md>), [news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [rust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rust.md>), [simplicity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/simplicity.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>), [systems-programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems-programming.md>), [technical](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technical.md>), [terminal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/terminal.md>), [zig](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/zig.md>)

## AI overview

An interview with HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto about choosing Zig over Rust for Ghostty, the technical challenges of building a terminal emulator, and systems programming in 2026.

## Source excerpt

The HashiCorp co-founder explains why he chose Zig over Rust for Ghostty, the technical challenges of terminal emulator development, and what systems programming looks like in 2026.