What's a terminal? Why is it being emulated? On this week's episode, Matt and Kris are joined by Mitchell Hashimoto to discuss his newest project Ghostty, the Zig programming language, thoughts and feelings about Go, and more. As always, catch some Unpopular Opinions at the end of the episode.

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Notes & Links:

• How to reset the terminal in Ghostty (from 04:41)
  • Ghostty reset keybinding
• Sunsetting Cursed Terminal Emulation (from 18:22)
• XTGETTCAP in Ghostty (from 23:31)
• ncurses terminfo database (from 25:14)
• Gnome VTE (from 36:55)
• Mongoose embedded web server (from 52:28)
• libuv (from 52:40)
• freetype (from 52:44)
• HarfBuzz (from 52:45)
• Pixman (from 52:48)
• libxev (from 52:58)
• z2d (from 53:01)
• Scripto Continua (from 01:25:26)

Chapters:

• (00:05) - Intro

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