The topic Ghostty is ditching GitHub over chronic reliability failures, and no one knows where… is currently the subject of lively discussion — readers and analysts are keeping a close eye on developments.
This is taking place in a dynamic environment: companies’ decisions and competitors’ reactions can quickly change the picture.
GitHub has not been making any friends lately with its stability issues. Everyone, from small hobbyists to large businesses, has been hit with GitHub reliability problems as of late, to the point where OpenAI reportedly thought of making its own variant just so it could ensure it had access to its own code at all times.
Unfortunately, GitHub’s recent problems have made it lose a valued member. Not only was this member the 1299th person to ever create an account for GitHub back in 2008, but they also used it to develop and publish their excellent terminal software, Ghostty. And while they loved their time with the service, they’ve since declared they intend to leave GitHub, and we’re not sure where it’s going next.
The developer in question is Mitchell Hashimoto, who wrote on their blog about their feelings toward GitHub. They start by sharing good memories about the website, saying that they have opened GitHub “Every day, multiple times per day, for over 18 years.” They say that GitHub is where they’re at their happiest, and that they were “doom scrolling GitHub issues since before that was a word.”
Unfortunately, Hashimoto has noticed that GitHub’s stability has been pretty awful as of late, and they have the log to prove it:
I’ve felt this way for a long time, but for the past month I’ve kept a journal where I put an “X” next to every date where a GitHub outage has negatively impacted my ability to work. Almost every day has an X. On the day I am writing this post, I’ve been unable to do any PR review for ~2 hours because there is a GitHub Actions outage. This is no longer a place for serious work if it just blocks you out for hours per day, every day.
While Hashimoto says they’re open to return if GitHub gets its act together, they plan to move Ghostty to another platform. All of their personal projects will stay on GitHub, but the big stuff will migrate elsewhere. As for where Ghostty will be hosted next, even Hashimoto says they don’t know just yet, but it’ll be interesting to see where they settle.
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