Terminal app Ghostty to leave GitHub after 18 years
Original: Ghostty is leaving GitHub
Why This Matters
High-profile developer departure highlights GitHub reliability concerns for mission-critical projects
Mitchell Hashimoto announces Ghostty terminal project will leave GitHub due to frequent outages and reliability issues. Developer cites daily service disruptions affecting work productivity over past month of tracking.
Mitchell Hashimoto, creator of terminal application Ghostty and GitHub user since 2008, announced the project will migrate away from GitHub after 18 years on the platform. Hashimoto tracked GitHub outages for a month, marking nearly every day when service disruptions prevented work. He cited a recent 2-hour GitHub Actions outage that blocked PR reviews as example of daily productivity impacts. Despite calling GitHub his 'dream job' destination and crediting it as inspiration for creating Vagrant, Hashimoto said the platform 'doesn't want me to get work done' due to reliability issues. The Ghostty project will maintain a read-only mirror on GitHub while transitioning to a new platform over coming months. Hashimoto is evaluating multiple commercial and open-source alternatives for the migration.