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).
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).
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.
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.
I think that’s the consequence of the money, not the other way around.
Turns out, being racist is also just a job.
Really shameful how nepotistic that whole field is. We really need better diversity in the racism, fraud, and quackery sectors, so that new innovators have a chance to develop