Ghostty is leaving GitHub

This isn’t just a software hosting story — it’s a full-on public breakup. Ghostty creator Mitchell Hashimoto announced he’s moving the project off GitHub after years of outages and frustration, and the comments instantly turned into a mix of therapy session, boardroom coup, and corporate blame game. The biggest gasp? Mitchell admitted he cried writing the post, saying GitHub wasn’t just a website to him, but a huge part of his life. That confession set the tone: people weren’t reacting like a company changed tools; they were reacting like someone watched their hometown burn down.

The strongest opinion in the thread is basically: GitHub has lost the plot. One camp says the platform has been “crumbling” ever since it became part of Microsoft, accusing it of chasing flashy artificial intelligence features instead of keeping the lights on. Another group went even more ideological, arguing this is what happens when you build your life around a service owned by a giant corporation: sooner or later, you stop being the customer and start being the product. And then came the wildest hot take of all — multiple people floated the idea that GitHub should just hire Mitchell to run the place, which is exactly the kind of internet fantasy-casting that erupts when users think the adults are no longer in charge.

There’s dark humor too: people joked that “crying over a software website” sounds absurd right up until another outage kills your workday. Underneath the memes, though, the mood is clear: this felt less like one project leaving and more like a loud, emotional warning siren for the rest of the open-source world.