When Infrastructure Reliability Fails: Ghostty Breaks Up with GitHub

Mitchell Hashimoto's decision to move Ghostty from GitHub stems not from features or pricing, but from chronic platform outages that directly block critical workflows. As a daily GitHub user since 2008 who built major projects like Terraform on the platform, Hashimoto's departure carries substantial weight for the developer tool ecosystem. The message to infrastructure providers is unambiguous: reliability is the non-negotiable foundation—repeated service failures in the critical path constitute a fundamental breach of trust.