How I Built a Windows Version of Ghostty in 3 Days with AI

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Main Text Ghostty is a terminal tool. It was made by Mitchell Hashimoto, the same person who made Vagrant and Terraform. It uses Zig language at its core. On Mac, it uses Swift. On Linux, it uses GTK. But there is no Windows version. I made a copy (forked it), and three days later, the Windows version was running. The first change (commit) was on September 1st at 2:30 AM. I released the first version on September 4th. The Windows part has 45 files and 48,000 lines of Rust code. I did

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