Popular terminal 'Ghostty' announces departure from GitHub; developers explain 'what they're unhappy about.'



Mitchell Hashimoto, the developer of the terminal emulator '

Ghostty ,' which is highly regarded for its speed and ease of use, has announced that he will be leaving GitHub.

Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub – Mitchell Hashimoto
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github



Hashimoto is an early user who joined GitHub in February 2008, with user number 1299. He has accessed GitHub almost every day for the past 18 years and is such a fan that he was 'doom-scrolling' on GitHub even before the term 'doom-scrolling' (endlessly scrolling through social media) was coined. He even considered working for GitHub when he was younger.

However, in recent years, he has openly criticized GitHub, saying it has become difficult to use for work. Hashimoto says that the problem wasn't with Git itself, but with the outages that occurred in GitHub's infrastructure, such as issues, pull requests, and CI.




He said that he had recently become so upset about GitHub outages that he would check every single time one occurred, and that this situation led him to decide to leave GitHub.

The future migration destination for the Ghostty project will be decided in the coming months. Since removing all dependencies from GitHub will take time, the plan will be implemented in stages. A read-only mirror will remain at the current URL.

Hashimoto commented, 'This may sound like an exaggeration, but it's true. I actually cried while writing this blog post. GitHub has given me so much, and I'm truly grateful. But things are different now. We've been discussing this intermittently for several months, but we started serious discussions a few weeks ago, and made the final decision a few days ago.'

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