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- 1DHH Highlights Major Speed Gains from Basecamp Chat Rust RewriteโDHH Shares Rust Rewrite's Massive Speed Boost for Basecamp Chat App
David Heinemeier Hansson, Basecamp's co-founder and Rails creator, has shared performance results from rewriting the Campfire chat application in Rust, reporting a substantial speed improvement. The claims are drawing attention from developers debating whether rewriting Rails applications in systems languages like Rust is worth the trade-off in productivity and complexity.
- 2Basecamp Research raises $140M to map biodiversity with AIโUK-based Basecamp Research raised $140M to map global biodiversity for drug discovery. By training AI on genetic data fr
UK-based Basecamp Research has raised $140 million to map global biodiversity for drug discovery. The company trains AI on genetic data from unexplored organisms to help design new therapies. Commenters note that scaling the work will depend on proving safety in human trials and ensuring fair benefit-sharing with the countries and communities where genetic material originates.
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37signals, the software company behind Basecamp and Ruby on Rails, says it is moving away from hand-coding its software in favor of AI agents doing much of the programming work. The announcement, coming from a company long known for its strong opinions on software craft, has sparked debate among developers about productivity, code quality and the future of the engineering profession.