Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer a place for serious work’
Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto announced he is moving his project Ghostty off GitHub, citing frequent outages that have made the platform unreliable for serious development work. Once a devoted user since 2008, Hashimoto expressed frustration over daily disruptions, particularly to GitHub Actions, which have hindered his ability to ship software. He lamented the decline in GitHub's stability and stated the platform no longer welcomes his work. While open to returning if improvements are made, he is now transitioning to alternative code hosting solutions.
- ▪Mitchell Hashimoto, GitHub user 1299 since 2008, is moving his project Ghostty off GitHub due to reliability issues.
- ▪He documented nearly daily GitHub outages over a month that disrupted his development and PR review workflows.
- ▪A recent GitHub Actions outage prevented him from working for approximately two hours.
- ▪Hashimoto is keeping a read-only mirror of Ghostty on GitHub but is migrating active development elsewhere.
- ▪He says he will consider returning only if GitHub delivers tangible improvements, not just promises.
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Software Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer a place for serious work’ Bemoans frequent outages that mean he’ll move Ghostty elsewhere Simon Sharwood Wed 29 Apr 2026 // 04:46 UTC Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto has decided GitHub is so unstable it is “no longer a place for serious work,” and will therefore move his current project elsewhere. Hashimoto’s current labour of love is Ghostty, a terminal emulator that The Register has praised for its speed and for adding “some interesting new wrinkles” to a very mature category of software. I want to ship software and it doesn't want me to ship software Like many developers, Hashimoto used GitHub to work on the project, and in a Tuesday post declared himself a fan.
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