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).

  • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com
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    4 hours ago

    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.