Ghostty is leaving GitHub
Mitchell Hashimoto announced that Ghostty will be leaving GitHub after 18 years of daily use. He expressed deep frustration with GitHub's recent outages, which have hindered his ability to work effectively. Hashimoto plans to transition Ghostty to a new platform while maintaining a read-only mirror on GitHub.
- ▪Mitchell Hashimoto has been a GitHub user since February 2008.
- ▪He has experienced numerous outages that have negatively impacted his work on GitHub.
- ▪Hashimoto plans to remove dependencies on GitHub incrementally and will share details about the new platform soon.
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| Original publisher | Mitchell Hashimoto |
| Canonical URL | https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github |
| Publication time | Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:44:52 +0000 |
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Mitchell Hashimoto{ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Article", "mainEntityOfPage": { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github" }, "headline": "Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub", "datePublished": "2026-04-28T00:00:00.000Z", "dateModified": "2026-04-28T00:00:00.000Z", "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Mitchell Hashimoto", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://mitchellh.com/static/images/logo.png" } } }Ghostty Is Leaving GitHubApril 28, 2026Writing this makes me irrationally sad, but Ghostty will be leaving GitHub1. I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008. Since then, I've opened GitHub every single day. Every day, multiple times per day, for over 18 years. Over half my life.
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