Infrastructure

Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer a place for serious work’

GitHub's reliability crisis reaches critical credibility loss as HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto abandons the platform after daily outages disrupt his Ghostty terminal emulator development, signaling infrastructure concerns at the industry's dominant code repository.

Thursday, April 30, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: The RegisterBY sys://pipeline

Mitchell Hashimoto, HashiCorp co-founder and GitHub user since 2008, announced he is relocating his Ghostty terminal emulator project from GitHub citing persistent reliability issues. Over the past month, Hashimoto documented daily GitHub outages disrupting his development workflow, prompting the departure despite his historical enthusiasm for the platform.

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Ghostty is leaving GitHub

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