GitHub 'No Longer a Place For Serious Work', Says Hashicorp Co-Founder

Source: Slashdot

Background

Hashicorp co‑founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub’s frequent outages have made it “no longer a place for serious work”【https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/mitchell_hashimoto_ghostty_quitting_github/】. After 18 years on the platform, he is moving his Ghostty terminal emulator project elsewhere.

Hashimoto’s Statements

“I’ve been angry about it. I’ve hurt people’s feelings. I’ve been lashing out. Because GitHub is failing me, every single day, and it is personal. It is irrationally personal,” he wrote【https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github】.

He kept a journal for the past month, marking an “X” on every day a GitHub outage impacted his 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.”

Hashimoto posted his note a few days before an April 28 incident【https://www.githubstatus.com/】 that caused pull‑request failures due to an Elasticsearch issue. He concluded that GitHub “is no longer a place for serious work if it just blocks you out for hours per day, every day.”

“It’s not a fun place for me to be anymore. I want to be there but it doesn’t want me to be there. I want to get work done and it doesn’t want me to get work done. I want to ship software and it doesn’t want me to ship software.”

Impact and Future Plans

Hashimoto wants GitHub to improve, but he feels he can no longer code there:

“I also want to code. And I can’t code with GitHub anymore. I’m sorry. After 18 years, I’ve got to go.”

He is open to returning if GitHub delivers real results and improvements, not just promises. In the meantime, he is moving Ghostty to another collaborative code host. He notes:

“We have a plan but I’m also very much still in discussions with multiple providers (both commercial and FOSS). It’ll take us time to remove all of our dependencies on GitHub and we have a plan in place to do it as incrementally as possible.”

As an interim measure, Hashimoto is leaving a read‑only mirror of Ghostty on GitHub and keeping his personal projects there, but the main development will shift to a new platform. He likens the move to “leaving a toothbrush at a former partner’s house,” emphasizing the focus on the open‑source community around Ghostty.