Mitchell Hashimoto's Ghostty is ditching GitHub. Devs are grabbing popcorn as the community blames AI 'agentic coding' for turning the site into a dumpster fire.
Just when you thought your tech stack was somewhat stable, Mitchell Hashimoto (the legend behind HashiCorp) drops a massive bomb: his slick terminal emulator project, Ghostty, is packing its bags and leaving GitHub. If you're compiling something right now, pause it, grab some popcorn, and let's dive in.
According to Mitchell's own post, Ghostty is actively moving away from GitHub. The core reason? Something we’ve all been suffering through recently: GitHub's uptime has been a complete joke.
Lately, GitHub has been plagued by severe reliability issues. Pull requests are taking ages to load, actions are lagging, and the platform has seen way more outages than usual. Instead of waiting around for the green status light to actually mean something, the Ghostty team decided to take matters into their own hands and jump ship.
Take a quick stroll through the Reddit thread (sitting at a spicy 800+ upvotes), and you'll see the community is completely divided. Here is the TL;DR of the warzone:
1. The "Back to Basics" Crowd A user named TrashConvo dropped a heavy truth bomb: "GitHub can't be the hub for agentic coding workflows if they can't get the basics of being a git server right." Shots fired. This has led many to confess they are slowly migrating their workflows to their own Gitea instances hosted on a private cloud vps.
2. The GitLab Evangelists Whenever GitHub stumbles, the GitLab crowd is ready to preach. User Gabelschlecker chimed in to remind everyone that GitLab is solid, comes with top-tier CI, Container/Package registries, and K8S integration. Apparently, it's already the default choice for a lot of European devs.
3. The "Works on My Machine" Guys There's always someone (like gex80) who asks: "What's wrong with GitHub? I just use it to store code and it's been fine." They were quickly educated by others: If you have a small project, you won't notice. But the moment you run a large project, the sheer volume of "by design" behaviors (like PRs kicking off massive workflows) is tearing the platform apart.
4. The Anti-AI Brigade User awmath voiced what many are feeling: ai tools and AI hype have essentially destroyed GitHub's usability. Searching for a solution now yields thousands of "vibe coded" garbage repos with a single commit from 3 months ago. And if you maintain a popular open-source repo? Get ready to be flooded with AI-generated PRs that completely miss the point of your project.
Ghostty leaving is just a symptom of a larger disease. When a massive platform gets tunnel vision chasing the latest hype (AI agents) and neglects its core value (actually hosting code reliably), heavy hitters are going to leave.
Bottom line for us code monkeys: Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Slapping your open-source side hustle on GitHub for exposure is fine, but for production code that pays your bills? Keep it private, put it on GitLab, or self-host it. Protect your own sanity before trusting a platform that's too busy pivoting to care about your uptime.
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