Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub

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TLDR

  • Mitchell Hashimoto is migrating Ghostty off GitHub after near-daily outages made it unusable for serious open source work.

Key Takeaways

  • Hashimoto tracked GitHub outages in a journal for a month; almost every day had an X marking lost work time.
  • On the day he published this post, a GitHub Actions outage blocked PR review for roughly two hours.
  • The April 27, 2026 ElasticSearch outage is separate; the decision to leave had been in progress for months.
  • Ghostty will keep a read-only mirror at the current GitHub URL; Hashimoto’s personal projects stay on GitHub for now.
  • A migration plan is underway with multiple providers under evaluation, both commercial and FOSS, with incremental dependency removal.

Why It Matters

  • A high-profile open source maintainer publicly citing reliability as the reason to leave signals a credibility problem for GitHub as infrastructure.
  • The critique targets GitHub’s surrounding infrastructure (issues, PRs, Actions), not Git itself, narrowing the scope of what any replacement must solve.
  • The move sets a visible precedent for other maintainers weighing reliability costs against GitHub’s network effects.

Mitchell Hashimoto · 2026-04-28 · Read the original

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