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- 1DHH Highlights Major Speed Gains from Basecamp Chat Rust RewriteโDHH Shares Rust Rewrite's Massive Speed Boost for Basecamp Chat App
David Heinemeier Hansson, Basecamp's co-founder and Rails creator, has shared performance results from rewriting the Campfire chat application in Rust, reporting a substantial speed improvement. The claims are drawing attention from developers debating whether rewriting Rails applications in systems languages like Rust is worth the trade-off in productivity and complexity.
- 2DHH'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.
- 3DigitalOcean ends open source support program after donation controversyโRE: https:// social.owncast.online/@owncast /117362130347294367 # DigitalOcean , which just joined DHH's fascist dotfile
DigitalOcean is shutting down its open source support program, according to posts circulating on Mastodon. The move comes shortly after the company reportedly made a $3 million donation to DHH's dotfile repository initiative, which critics have labelled fascist. Commenters are framing the two events together, questioning the company's commitment to the open source community.
- 4DHH's AI Agent Test Finds Rust Faster Than RailsโDHH's AI Agent Test Shows Rust Crushing Rails in Speed
Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson ran a benchmark comparing AI coding agents and found Rust implementations significantly outperforming Rails in speed. The results have sparked debate among developers about language choice for performance-critical applications, with some questioning the fairness of the comparison and others arguing it confirms long-standing assumptions about compiled versus interpreted languages.
- 5DHH's Rust Rewrite of Campfire Beats Rails PerformanceโDHH's AI-Rewritten Rust Campfire Crushes Rails Performance
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, has rewritten the Campfire chat application in Rust, and the results show a dramatic performance jump over the original Rails version. Benchmarks circulating online point to far higher throughput and lower latency, prompting debate about whether the gains justify stepping away from Rails' productivity advantages. Fans and critics are weighing in on what it means for Rails' future.
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Programmers are setting up small local servers, jokingly called 'AI sheds', to run AI coding tools on their own hardware instead of renting expensive cloud capacity. The trend follows a suggestion by Ruby creator David Heinemeier Hansson, who argued developers could save money and keep code private by hosting models at home. Responses have been mixed, with some praising the cost savings and others calling it impractical.
- 7DHHS Unveils 2026 Agenda With Five Clinical Research Rule ChangesโDHHS Releases 2026 Unified Agenda With Five Clinical Research Rule Changes
The Department of Health and Human Services has published its 2026 Unified Agenda, which includes five planned regulatory changes affecting clinical research. The announcement points to upcoming revisions in how clinical trials are overseen, though details of the specific rules have not yet been outlined in the coverage.