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- 1DHH's Rust Rewrite of Campfire Delivers Massive Speed GainsโDHH's Rust Rewrite of Campfire Delivers Massive Speed Boosts
David Heinemeier Hansson has rewritten Campfire, the web-based team chat tool from 37signals, using Rust, with reports of large performance improvements over the original Rails version. The move has sparked debate in developer communities about the trade-offs between developer productivity in Ruby and raw runtime performance from systems languages.
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37signals, the software company behind Basecamp and Ruby on Rails, says it is moving away from hand-coding its software in favor of AI agents doing much of the programming work. The announcement, coming from a company long known for its strong opinions on software craft, has sparked debate among developers about productivity, code quality and the future of the engineering profession.