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What exactly is special about rolling a custom arch in this instance? Like, why does this get so much attention? Do web developers really care about what DHH do

by zer0zzz 1mo ago

What exactly is special about rolling a custom arch in this instance? Like, why does this get so much attention? Do web developers really care about what DHH does that much? Like, I get it if thats the case. Say, if Chris Lattner or Andrej Karpathy rolled some ML GPU programming distro I'd probably care about it and try and see if it made me more productive.

osigurdson 1mo ago
DHH made Ruby on Rails and lots of people love it (not for me, personally).
- zer0zzz 1mo ago
  Everyone knows that, but that was 20 years ago. Why do people still care?
  - teekert 1mo ago
    Care should age? At what rate, do you propose?
    - zer0zzz 1mo ago
      I thought that’s pretty much the way all technology goes. Just seems silly to take promotion an operating system that’s essentially a lot of config files atop existing work seriously from someone that made a popular web development framework 20 years ago. That’d be like me caring about a distro Gavin king made because he made hibernate in the 2000s at jboss.
JeremyNT 1mo ago
He leveraged his past success as a web developer to get into online culture war punditry. Now he's a prominent race-baiting reactionary. There's a sort of cult of personality around him at this point. His acolytes follow him for his nativist views, and then adopt his technology unthinkingly. I don't know why my comment was downvoted above. This isn't a serious distribution and you shouldn't expect it to be. It's a vanity project of a niche alt right tech bro, and this is the level of rigor you should expect.
- zer0zzz 1mo ago
  Yeah that’s exactly it. Seems he’s manufacturing a lot of culture war bullshit just to bring attention to a less than interesting distro. If it wanted to be the “hyperland“ distro as so many distros are (built to bring one de/wm to users prepackaged) that’d be one thing. If he wanted to show people how to roll their own opinionated distro the way gentoo or lfs kinda did that’d be another too! But seems it’s neither of these, and purely vanity to me.

by zer0zzz 1mo ago

osigurdson 1mo ago

DHH made Ruby on Rails and lots of people love it (not for me, personally).

zer0zzz 1mo ago
Everyone knows that, but that was 20 years ago. Why do people still care?
- teekert 1mo ago
  Care should age? At what rate, do you propose?
  - zer0zzz 1mo ago
    I thought that’s pretty much the way all technology goes. Just seems silly to take promotion an operating system that’s essentially a lot of config files atop existing work seriously from someone that made a popular web development framework 20 years ago. That’d be like me caring about a distro Gavin king made because he made hibernate in the 2000s at jboss.

JeremyNT 1mo ago

He leveraged his past success as a web developer to get into online culture war punditry. Now he's a prominent race-baiting reactionary. There's a sort of cult of personality around him at this point. His acolytes follow him for his nativist views, and then adopt his technology unthinkingly. I don't know why my comment was downvoted above. This isn't a serious distribution and you shouldn't expect it to be. It's a vanity project of a niche alt right tech bro, and this is the level of rigor you should expect.

zer0zzz 1mo ago
Yeah that’s exactly it. Seems he’s manufacturing a lot of culture war bullshit just to bring attention to a less than interesting distro. If it wanted to be the “hyperland“ distro as so many distros are (built to bring one de/wm to users prepackaged) that’d be one thing. If he wanted to show people how to roll their own opinionated distro the way gentoo or lfs kinda did that’d be another too! But seems it’s neither of these, and purely vanity to me.