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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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[-] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 130 points 2 days 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.

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

I think that's the consequence of the money, not the other way around.

[-] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 day ago

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

Turns out, being racist is also just a job.

[-] tquid@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago

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

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