Interview of Aram the maintainer of Zellij
Aram was so kind to agree to an interview and gives some great insight about choice of programming language, technologies and how it is to be an Open Source Software maintainer.
Check out the amazing tool he wrote https://zellij.dev/
Consider sponsoring him and his work via GitHub https://github.com/sponsors/imsnif
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:39 How did you become a programmer?
00:01:34 How I became one
00:05:23 What is Zellij?
00:11:31 What does Zellij mean?
00:13:34 Can it be compared to screen or tmux?
00:16:20 How I discovered Zellij
00:17:50 Why use KDL for config files?
00:26:36 Why use Rust to develop Zellij?
00:34:56 Using Rusts advanced features?
00:42:26 Why WASM for plugins?
00:47:11 WASM disadvantages
00:52:56 Cool Plugins for Zellij?
00:55:49 Community interaction with OSS projects
01:00:17 Communication channels for the community?
01:02:49 How do you earn money as a OSS maintainer?
01:08:17 Future ideas for Zellij
01:10:37 Preferred way of sponsorship?
01:12:46 Advice for programmers in OSS space?