From DHH’s long-winded keynote at Rails World 2026. He was bragging that Hey’s backend is so efficient because it’s written in Rust (which he hates and refuses to read).

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    4 hours ago

    Ain’t this the same guy who vibe coded a distro and somehow managed to land a shitton of money from that?

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      Basically started as a glorified bunch of dotfiles. Haven’t checked whether or not it’s actually a distro yet.

      But yeah, bunch of rich people threw a couple million at him, presumably because he’s a racist and their interests align.

      I really can’t imagine that being about his project, especially when there are tens, if not hundreds of thousands of other critically-important and chronically under-funded open-source projects.

      IMO it’s 100% who and 0% what.

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        A racist who went all-in on AI. That’s probably responsible for a lot of the investments - you can get Silicon Valley idiots to invest in anything right now so long as it has those two magic letters in front of it.

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      It’s a new distro in the same way that Minecraft with a texture pack installed is a completely different game.