Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig

Re:Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig by LtWorf on Friday July 10, 2026 @10:21AM (#48860359)

You mean ADA? I'd agree, at least gcc can compile it so it's not limited to the very few architectures that rust supports.

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Re:Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig by swiftcoder on Friday July 10, 2026 @11:31AM (#48861332)

> not limited to the very few architectures that rust supports

Of all the complaints about rust, this strikes me as one of weirdest. How much code do you actually write for architectures outside the Tier 3 support list?

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Re:Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig by LtWorf on Friday July 10, 2026 @01:26PM (#48862741)

0 because it's not supported.

However I did write ADA and C for those.

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Re:Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig by swiftcoder on Friday July 10, 2026 @02:04PM (#48863198)

> However I did write ADA and C for those.

Ok, but recently? I too wrote code for obscure platforms once upon a time, but not in, say, the last 15 years.

Now that PCs, game consoles, and mobile devices are basically all either amd64 or ARM, there's just not such a long tail of weird platforms to develop for.

(the embedded world I will grant you, still lots of bespoke toolchains running around in that space)

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Re:Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig by LtWorf on Saturday July 11, 2026 @08:14PM (#48877070)

Oh it wasn't in my current job but it was less than 15 years ago.

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