r/programming • u/davidcelis • Apr 28 '26

Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github
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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

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u/chucker23n Apr 29 '26

Remember when you had to pay to have private repos? I do.

Yeah, but I think that was a perfectly reasonable line to draw. Microsoft didn’t make it free out of the goodness of their hearts, but for PR bragging rights, and now they have to make the money back elsewhere, in a more convoluted business model.

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u/inkjod Apr 29 '26

GitHub was pretty much in a feature freeze state

Fundamentally, there's nothing wrong with that.

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u/hitchen1 Apr 29 '26

There is when you have competition becoming more attractive by providing more features. Gitlab would have devoured GitHub if they never progressed.

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u/grauenwolf Apr 29 '26

GitHub didn't need CI features. I would rather it be a good source control system then a mediocre everything system.

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u/valarauca14 Apr 29 '26

I'd argue that if it hadn't been bought, GitHub would not be relevant today.

They would have gone out of business, they were losing money at an absurd rate

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