Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub
9 hours ago
- Mitchell Hashimoto, longtime GitHub user (since Feb 2008), announces Ghostty will leave GitHub due to frustration with frequent outages impacting work.
- He expresses deep emotional attachment to GitHub, having used it daily for over 18 years for work, hobby, and passion, including starting projects like Vagrant in hopes of joining GitHub.
- Despite love for the platform, he documents daily outages (e.g., Actions outages) that block productivity, making it 'no longer a place for serious work.'
- The decision to leave is based on real results needed for improvement, not promises; Ghostty will move to another provider (commercial or FOSS) incrementally while keeping a read-only mirror on GitHub.
- Personal projects and other work remain on GitHub for now; the focus is on Ghostty's community impact due to infrastructure dependencies like issues, PRs, and Actions.