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

Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto has decided GitHub is so unstable it is “no longer a place for serious work,” and will therefore move his current project elsewhere.

Hashimoto’s current labour of love is Ghostty, a terminal emulator that The Register has praised for its speed and for adding “some interesting new wrinkles” to a very mature category of software.

I want to ship software and it doesn't want me to ship software

Like many developers, Hashimoto used GitHub to work on the project, and in a Tuesday post declared himself a fan.

“I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008,” he wrote, and since then has used it almost every day.

“GitHub is the place that has made me the most happy,” he revealed, and “always made time for it” – even during his honeymoon because the service is “where I've historically been happiest and wanted to be ...