Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer a place for serious work’
Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of Hashicorp, has announced he will move his project Ghostty away from GitHub due to frequent outages. He expressed frustration over the platform's unreliability, stating it has hindered his ability to work effectively. Despite his long history with GitHub, he feels it is no longer suitable for serious development work.
- ▪Hashimoto has been a GitHub user since February 2008 and has used it almost daily.
- ▪He has documented numerous outages that have negatively impacted his work, with almost every day marked in his journal.
- ▪Hashimoto plans to transition Ghostty to another platform while keeping a read-only mirror on GitHub.
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