Kraken alum fires back at DHH's Rust jab: 'the most beautiful code I've ever worked on'
evilsocket · x · 2026-09-29
A Rust vs Ruby flame war erupted after DHH mocked Rust, and tmuxvim pushed back with a detailed rebuttal.
Key points:
- He hired a Rust team at Kraken (2019-2022) to build Cryptowatch Desktop (now Kraken Desktop) and calls it the most elegant code he's ever worked with: correct functional paradigms, easy refactoring, scalable complexity, with the compiler doing much of the work.
- He credits the outcome to insulating the team from PMs and bureaucracy at Kraken and letting them take their time.
- He argues dunking on Rust as an inelegant Frankenstein language is a self-own, noting Ruby's legible syntax comes with trade-offs and refactoring Rails code is a nightmare.
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