Something is shifting. Over the last year, projects I respect have packed up and left GitHub, not quietly, and not without explaining why.
Ghostty announced it was leaving. Zig migrated to Codeberg. Plenty of individual developers have written their own version of the same story. These aren't fringe holdouts; they're some of the most thoughtful people building software today, and they've decided the place we've all called home for nearly two decades is no longer where they want to do serious work.
I think they're right. And I think the reasons they left point at something bigger than GitHub: a gap that none of the obvious replacements are filling. So we're building Plain to fill it.
The exodus is already happening
You don't have to take my word that something's wrong. The people leaving have been specific.
