Ghostty is leaving GitHub
Mitchell Hashimoto writes about the decision to move the Ghostty project away from GitHub.
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.
I don’t think this will be the last open source project to leave GitHub in the coming months. And I don’t think that’s a bad thing either. It’s good to have competition, and there are a number of great Git platforms elsewhere on the internet for developers.
Maybe GitHub has had its day in the sun with developers. I’ve no doubt it will remain the largest platform for developers and their projects. But given the outage history over the last few months, I’m curious to see if other projects follow suit.