Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig

Re:Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig by jes5199 on Friday July 10, 2026 @02:34AM (#48856487)

I tried that, but the Rust build process was too painful, and agents seemed to burn a lot of tokens guessing how to get the code to compile. I rewrote my project in Elixir and it’s been going much more smoothly

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Re:Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig by graemep on Friday July 10, 2026 @06:17AM (#48858013)

Elixir is great, and I have recently started using it myself, but its not a substitute for Rust. Try writing device driver in Elixir, or anything CPU intensive.

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Re:Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig by freedomben on Friday July 10, 2026 @08:26AM (#48858936)

GP said nothing of what they were building. Seems pretty probable it was a web service/application rather than a device driver.

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Re:Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig by graemep on Saturday July 11, 2026 @05:23AM (#48870307)

That is my point. It might be better for some use cases, but those are very different from the ones Rust is best.

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Re:Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig by jes5199 on Saturday July 11, 2026 @01:20PM (#48873825)

I’m building a heavily parallel dataflow system. I thought Rust might be good for concurrency.

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Re:Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig by throw1234567891 on Friday July 10, 2026 @07:22AM (#48858434)

You mean your LLMs had an easier time with Elixir. Do you actually know either of the two yourself?

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Re:Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig by jes5199 on Saturday July 11, 2026 @01:18PM (#48873811)

what’s the difference

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