DHH2026-10-19 08:47:05DHH praises China’s AI and hardware, then criticizes WeChat, Alipay and HarmonyOS designDeveloper David Heinemeier Hansson, better known as DHH, drew attention in Shenzhen after presenting his Linux desktop system Omarchy at the GOSIM conference on Oct. 17 and attending a developer meetup that drew more than 500 sign-ups. A day later, after saying Huawei’s MateBook Fold felt futuristic, he turned to criticism, calling Chinese software “rough” and naming WeChat, Alipay and HarmonyOS. DHH said he admires China’s AI models and hardware, but finds many software products confusing in their design. He pointed to issues including limited whitespace, inconsistent margins, abrupt page transitions, rough animations and disorganized information architecture. In his view, large Silicon Valley apps still hold a clear lead on those details. His comments triggered pushback online. Some users argued that WeChat and Alipay combine payments, transportation and many other daily services, reducing the need to jump between apps, and that interface complexity is hard to avoid in a super app. DHH rejected that argument, saying rich functionality and polished design can coexist. Others in the discussion said the complexity of domestic apps is tied to commercialization, with splash-screen shake ads, loan entry points and short-video recommendations taking over space once reserved for core functions.430
DHH2026-10-08 08:46:13DHH’s AI Port of Campfire Reopens the Speed-vs-Readability Debate as Rust Benchmarks Draw ScrutinyDavid Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Rails, has revived a familiar programming-language argument with a new twist: what matters most when AI is writing more of the code. DHH said he had AI port 37signals’ chat app Campfire into Rust, Go, and Elixir, with early tests showing the Rust version handling about 36,000 chat page requests per second versus roughly 240 for the original Ruby implementation. That result pushed him to reconsider a long-held preference for Ruby’s developer productivity and readability. Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch backed that line of thinking and pointed to Vercel’s own experience migrating roughly 70,000 lines of Go in Turborepo to Rust over 15 months. Even though the team saw Rust as a better fit for low-level systems work, the manual migration cost was high enough to spark internal debate over return on investment. The benchmark quickly came under criticism. Elixir creator José Valim said the compared versions were not equally optimized and did not share the same architecture. He noted that the Rust version had gone through hundreds of commits and several rounds of tuning, while the Elixir version remained close to its initial port. DHH replied that if top AI agents could not discover Elixir optimizations, that limitation also mattered in real-world development. An updated unified test on Oct. 8 showed Rust at about 106,000 requests per second and Go at about 53,000.570
Omacom2026-09-01 09:53:00Omacom Foundation Sponsorships Reach $12M as Coinbase CEO and TapTap Founder JoinOmacom Foundation's founding patrons have now contributed a total of $12 million, with new $1 million pledges from TapTap founder Yunjie Dai and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. Both have joined the Founding Patrons list. The foundation is backing the desktop Linux OS Omarchy and reserves a major role for cryptocurrency in its ecosystem.1140
Omacom2026-09-01 09:56:55Omacom Foundation Gets $1M Each from TapTap Founder and Coinbase CEO, Reaching $12M in Founding Patron SupportRuby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) announced on X that the Omacom Foundation has received $1 million each from TapTap founder Dai Yunjie and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, bringing total founding patron support to $12 million. The two have joined the Foundation's Founding Patrons list. Omacom said it will reserve an important place for cryptocurrency in its operating system and community.1100
DHH2026-08-23 09:37:00DHH launches Omacom Foundation with $8 million to back Omarchy and open-source infrastructureDavid Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and co-founder of 37signals, has announced the launch of the nonprofit Omacom Foundation with $8 million in initial funding. The organization is intended to provide long-term support for infrastructure tied to Omarchy, as well as open-source development connected to the project and its dependencies. According to the announcement, the foundation will hold relevant trademarks, cover infrastructure costs, and fund dependent open-source projects and developers. The first round of funding came from eight donors contributing $1 million each, including Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell, Block Chairman Jack Dorsey, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe, 37signals CEO Jason Fried, and Hansson himself. The foundation will also become the exclusive sponsor of Hyprland under a three-year agreement with an option to extend for another two years. Starting Oct. 10, it will take over sponsorship, end the existing paid Hyprperks subscription, and make related services free while still accepting individual donations.5770
