Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp, says his terminal application Ghostty will move off GitHub, citing GitHub's frequent outages (Mitchell Hashimoto)
HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto's decision to migrate the Ghostty terminal application away from GitHub due to reliability concerns signals growing dissatisfaction with a critical infrastructure provider among enterprise technology leaders. This trend highlights the business risk of over-reliance on single-vendor platforms for mission-critical development operations, particularly as development velocity and uptime become competitive differentiators. IT organizations must reassess their source code management strategies and implement multi-repository or alternative hosting plans to mitigate dependency risks.

Mitchell Hashimoto: Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp, says his terminal application Ghostty will move off GitHub, citing GitHub's frequent outages — I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008. — Since then, I've opened GitHub every single day. Every day, multiple times per day, for over 18 years.