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solo@solonovamax@tech.lgbt (2026-09-27 14:09:50)
>be DHH, creator of rails
>at rails world 2026
>say you hate rust with a passion
>say you think rust is the ugliest language invented in the past 40 years
>announce how you have rewritten your chud email thing from rails into rust
>"in fact, our back of the envelope calculation has led us to believe that HEY's peak traffic could probably be served on a single raspberry pi" (read: "we have no users")
>also rewrite every application in the platform's native language (you now have a bunch of separate codebases)
>say you never ever wants to have to look at the code
>also say you "wrote" 150k lines of code last month
>"writing code by hand is no longer an economically productive enterprise for the vast majority of programmers [...] by the end of the year it will be virtually all domains, virtually all programmers, virtually all companies"

you literally cannot make this shit up