A Programmer's Guide to Leaving GitHub – Lord.io

DRANK

If you subscribe to many programming blogs, chances are you've come across a post describing someone's move off GitHub. They started as far back as the Microsoft acquisition in 2018, but they've increased in frequency recently. Both the Zig programming language and Leiningen build tool wrote about their move to other platforms late last year. I've drawn inspiration from these posts, and the countless similar posts from individual programmers. However, since they're mostly informational announcements telling people to update their repository URLs, they tend to only briefly mention the reasons the author chose to leave. They don't try too hard to convince a skeptical reader that perhaps they could leave GitHub too.I'm going to migrate all my personal projects off of GitHub this weekend, in support of today's general strike in Minnesota. Instead of the traditional brief message, I'll instead try to record my thought process a little more deeply: my research into which groups have active …