Mitchell Hashimoto on X: "Mind boggling to me that I can make a thing faster and there's always people that ask "but why?" What kind of mentality is that? The pursuit of excellence does not need justification. Also, I find in so many cases, we can't know the impact of an improvement until we do it.

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Mitchell Hashimoto on X: "Mind boggling to me that I can make a thing faster and there's always people that ask "but why?" What kind of mentality is that? The pursuit of excellence does not need justification. Also, I find in so many cases, we can't know the impact of an improvement until we do it.

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Mitchell Hashimoto

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Mind boggling to me that I can make a thing faster and there's always people that ask "but why?" What kind of mentality is that? The pursuit of excellence does not need justification. Also, I find in so many cases, we can't know the impact of an improvement until we do it.

For example, one I've talked about before: Ghostty's high IO throughput has enabled terminal program (emulator and TUI) fuzzing at a speed thats incomparably fast to prior solutions. This has resulted in upstream patches to resolve issues in popular projects like btop, tmux, and more.

Speed enabled that anecdotally example that lifted the tides of adjacent communities that don't rely on Ghostty technology at all. I didn't predict this.

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@ThePrimeagen

Jul 6

love this

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@jnardiello

Jul 6

That’s an approach, people asking “but why” aren’t always wrong and in resource-constrained environments it’s actually the right question to ask. Def not very applicable to you or ghostty

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@glcst

Jul 6

there is a version of this that I go through.

I talk about how we are expanding the scope massively of what sqlite can do with our rewrite. Then some of the replies start with "but why?" and then they start this long post explaining exactly what sqlite is, what it is good for, Show more

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