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Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

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Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

#111

We've gone full circle! I originally launched Vagrant here on HN in 2010, which was at the top of HN very briefly for the day. Now here I am 14 years later witnessing my departure post in that very same spot. A strange experience! Thanks for the support over the years. A lot of the initial community for the projects I helped start came from here.

Congrats Mitchell, you've been a huge inspiration!

Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

#112

We've gone full circle! I originally launched Vagrant here on HN in 2010, which was at the top of HN very briefly for the day. Now here I am 14 years later witnessing my departure post in that very same spot. A strange experience! Thanks for the support over the years. A lot of the initial community for the projects I helped start came from here.

You're one of the very few technical people that made it big that I continue to look up to. Congratulations on your achievements, and looking forward to whatever is in the pipeline.

Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

#113
post #54

Mitchell is the only person I can think of who went through the cycle of tinkerer/IC -> founder -> CXO and then back to IC in his own company. Also, his writings on Zig has been tremendously helpful for someone like me who is curious about it. Huge respect from a fellow IC!

The only other person I remember doing that is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_(programmer) Btw. he published a great read on how they started Autodesk https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/e5/

John Walker is also very impressive, definitely rates a mention. And I'll forever owe him because of Speak Freely.

Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

#114
post #38

It is interesting to see how hashicorp went from an underdog company with vagrant to a company to aspire for with terraform, nomad, consul, vault to something that orgs and community dread, all within a decade. Standards that they have set are still industry wide relevant. But you can see they are on a negative path.

This is a weird take. If anything, Nomad, Consul and Vault are on the ascent, as the realities of the CNCF ecosystem set in for people with results to deliver.

Nomad is dead in the water.

When you talk to Consul support engineers, they assume you're using kubernetes, and are confused if you tell them you're using Nomad, _a product that their company makes_.

Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

#117

We've gone full circle! I originally launched Vagrant here on HN in 2010, which was at the top of HN very briefly for the day. Now here I am 14 years later witnessing my departure post in that very same spot. A strange experience! Thanks for the support over the years. A lot of the initial community for the projects I helped start came from here.

Man you're a rocket ship. Such an inspiration and congratulations on your success.

Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

#118
Can we all take a moment to reflect how great is HN ? People have launched their software products here and gone on to become wildly successful or industry standards. I think our field is lucky we have a space where we can all enjoy people's successes, get inspired, be sourly or sarcastic (lol), have meaningful discussions and its all done with Lisp, HTML tables, an unstyled "add comment" button (please don't change) and a bunch of bare-metal servers which sometimes catch fire along with the discussions. Its quite wonderful.

Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

#119
post #90

> the GitHub Octoverse report found that HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) has once again emerged as one of the top languages used in open source projects "Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL) with a 56,1% increase in popularity is the fastest-growing language according to GitHub" Fastest growing and "top" are not the same thing, but I have to assume that you know that @mitchellh. Embarrassed for you. https://…

From the 2023 Octoverse report[1], "In 2023, Shell and Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL) once again emerged as top languages across open source projects, indicating that operations and IaC work are gaining prominence in the open source space." The accompanying chart shows it as #11, ranking above Dart, Kotlin, and Ruby.

I think this is a case where the citation bears out the claim, and there's no need for Mitchell to feel embarrassment.

[1]: https://github.blog/2023-11-08-the-state-of-open-source-and-...

Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

#120

We've gone full circle! I originally launched Vagrant here on HN in 2010, which was at the top of HN very briefly for the day. Now here I am 14 years later witnessing my departure post in that very same spot. A strange experience! Thanks for the support over the years. A lot of the initial community for the projects I helped start came from here.

Congratulations on a new page in your journey! And thank you for documenting the story - you’ve inspired many great developers and founders along the way!

Being on almost the opposite end of the software design, I haven’t yet had a good place to apply the tools you’ve built, but I’ve heard many nice things about them from practically everyone, including direct competitors. That says it all.

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