Software Engineering

Mitchell Hashimoto announces Superlogical and new terminal multiplexer

Key Takeaway

Mitchell Hashimoto is launching a new company, Superlogical, which will first develop a high-performance terminal multiplexer using libghostty.

Summary

Mitchell Hashimoto, the creator of Ghostty, has announced the formation of a new company called Superlogical. The company's initial product will be a terminal multiplexer built upon the libghostty library. Hashimoto confirmed that Ghostty will remain a non-profit project under its current governance and MIT license.

Development of a new terminal multiplexer

  • The new multiplexer will be built using libghostty as a public building block.
  • Superlogical intends to use the same MIT-licensed components available to the public.
  • The project aims to upstream shared terminal work to benefit all libghostty consumers.
  • The focus is on creating a tool that is powerful and fast, leveraging Hashimoto's experience with terminal emulators.

Why it matters

The move reinforces the utility of libghostty as a foundational library for terminal-related software while keeping the Ghostty project strictly non-profit.

Original reference: mitchellh.com →