I stay away from anything Hashimoto is making after my experiences with TF & HCL, or at least the bar is much higher / projects get a lot more scrutiny

Yea you’re thinking of Ghostty, this topic is about Zed, which is not related. In fact Zed uses Alacritty for their terminal, I wish it was Ghostty!

Zed is sticking to all Rust, it appears, so Ghostty wouldn't work. Also Ghostty has a lot more UI features itself like tabs etc so I don't think it's as easy to integrate in an editor which also has its own UI, so Alacritty being mainly TUI driven makes more sense.

Mitchell has released libghostty which is the core terminal features for this type of embedding

Care to elaborate on Terraform/HCL issues?

I have worked quite heavily with Terraform and went through the trough of despair myself. But after a while I realized

1. It does quite a good job at what it does, given the complexity it's handling for us.

2. We have been expecting more and more from the tool.

Mitchell himself called Terraform stuck in the past in some social media platform. However, I don't see Terraform sucking up all the interest and cash in infra, making the landscape barren so nothing else can grow. So, I hope something better will pop up. Until then, Terraform is good for what it does.

What does Mitchell Hashimoto have to do with Zed beyond a guest blog post?

My understanding is that he is involved in the development of Zed

I find Zed's feature choices to be really poor, and then I probably made a poor association based on his talking about zed

Hashimoto writes Ghostty in the Zig programming language. There might be a mixup here between Zig and Zed.

Yeah, they're not zigging, they're zagging, er, zedding...

I know he's working on ghostty, but I've never heard anything about him working on Zed, was that what you were thinking of?

sorry and thank you, I stand corrected in several comments about my missassociation based on a blog post Hashimoto did for Zed