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Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub – Mitchell Hashimoto

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Since then, I've opened GitHub every single day. Every day, multiple times per day, for over 18 years. Over half my life. A handful of exceptions in there (I'd love to see the data), but I can't imagine more than a week per year. GitHub is the place that has made me the most happy. I always made time for it. When I went through tough breakups? I lost myself in open source... on GitHub. During college at 4 AM when everyone is passed out? Let me get one commit in. During my honeymoon while my wife is still asleep? Yeah, GitHub. It's where I've historically been happiest and wanted to be. Even the annoying stuff! Some people doom scroll social media. I've been doom scrolling GitHub issues since before that was a word. On vacations I'd have bookmarks of different projects on GitHub I wanted to study. Not just source code, but OSS processes, how other maintainers react to difficult situations. Etc. Believe it or not, I like this. Some might call this sick, but my hobby and work and passion

Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub – Mitchell Hashimoto Mitchell Hashimoto Mitchell Hashimoto Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub April 28, 2026 Writing this makes me irrationally sad, but Ghostty will be leaving GitHub 1 . 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. Over half my life. A handful of exceptions in there (I'd love to see the data), but I can't imagine more than a week per year. GitHub is the place that has made me the most happy. I always made time for it. When I went through tough breakups? I lost mys

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