What Mitchell Hashimoto thinks about developer tools
Creator of Ghostty and co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Mitchell Hashimoto has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingTerminal programs bias toward dark modes, and explicit colors are hostile to light modes and themes.
Their wordsTerminal programs bias to dark modes and explicit colors are hostile to light modes and themes.
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsI can't tell you the number of people over my career that have said "I tried learning tmux" First problem: the fact you have to "learn it" at all. The world's best multiplexer is the one you don't have to learn. It just works.