He created Ruby on Rails, and more recently Omarchy. I will die on the Omarchy is not a Linux distribution hill. He's just released his dots!
More importantly he's made a lot of really controversial statements about race, and immigrants. And is known for thinly veiled Nazi dog whistle posts on X and other places.
If you want to see the top of the rabbit hole you can start here -
Interesting position you have there, lemme rephrase it
Opensource is shit, china can have it
China is an enemy, should be banned from everywhere, killed, bombed, and everything else, and pedophiles should be glazed
Is that correct?
He kind of is/was, even more famous than DHH ever was, depends on the crowd, depends on bang.
Much of the web of the 2Ks/2K10+ was absolutely dominated by PHP, RoR appeared and pushed Ruby, Python and PHP forward(their own ecosystems of web frameworks RoR variations and with time, their own unique identities), across timelines, it always was a small dent, RoR never caught up, it "died" together with PHP.
These days is all node and python, enterprise world is java/dotnet, they will die too.
There are solid systems still built on high human engineering in any tech stack these days, the tech salad is big and it will die, new concepts will be built, we were just given the means to express in human language, the ultimate programming language we ever sought for, what do we do with it ? we are boiling water, just like in nuclear reactors. The tech is amazing, the execution is abysmal
Can we please stop talking about DHH?
ColdPorridge 8 points · 1d ago
I have no idea who this guy is tbh
thrillho39 12 points · 1d ago
He created Ruby on Rails, and more recently Omarchy. I will die on the Omarchy is not a Linux distribution hill. He's just released his dots!
More importantly he's made a lot of really controversial statements about race, and immigrants. And is known for thinly veiled Nazi dog whistle posts on X and other places.
If you want to see the top of the rabbit hole you can start here -
https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-midlife-crisis/
Informal_Advisor_139 5 points · 1d ago
And China don’t give a fuck about any of that
whatathrowaway93 2 points · 19h ago
And? Who gives a fuck what china cares about. If you do, move there and give Xi handjobs or something.
Omarchy is dogshit anyway, China can have it.
Informal_Advisor_139 1 points · 5h ago
dafaq?
whatathrowaway93 0 points · 5h ago
I mean it had as much substance as your one-sentence statement about China. Which had nothing to do with the comment you replied to 😂
Informal_Advisor_139 1 points · 4h ago
alright whatever makes you feel better man
HyperWinX -1 points · 15h ago
Interesting position you have there, lemme rephrase it
Opensource is shit, china can have it
China is an enemy, should be banned from everywhere, killed, bombed, and everything else, and pedophiles should be glazed
Is that correct?
whatathrowaway93 2 points · 15h ago
What the fuck are you even talking about? How about you form a real argument and a coherent sentence and get back to us?
L43 5 points · 1d ago
he is depressingly a big name is software history, he built ruby on rails.
LatterNetwork1568 5 points · 22h ago
That's cool, so who built PHP? I feel like DHH is only known because he has controversial views he posts on social media
L43 3 points · 14h ago
Rasmus Lerdorf? Should be a very recognisable name to anyone who works in web? Even more famous than DHH ever was?
iongion 1 points · 3h ago
He kind of is/was, even more famous than DHH ever was, depends on the crowd, depends on bang.
Much of the web of the 2Ks/2K10+ was absolutely dominated by PHP, RoR appeared and pushed Ruby, Python and PHP forward(their own ecosystems of web frameworks RoR variations and with time, their own unique identities), across timelines, it always was a small dent, RoR never caught up, it "died" together with PHP.
These days is all node and python, enterprise world is java/dotnet, they will die too.
There are solid systems still built on high human engineering in any tech stack these days, the tech salad is big and it will die, new concepts will be built, we were just given the means to express in human language, the ultimate programming language we ever sought for, what do we do with it ? we are boiling water, just like in nuclear reactors. The tech is amazing, the execution is abysmal