A Rust port of ONCE Campfire achieves pixel-perfect parity with the original Rails application while delivering 20–95× faster performance. The single binary replaces Ruby, Puma, Redis, and Resque, handling 100,000 concurrent clients in 1.5 GB of memory and serving pages and real-time updates significantly faster than the Rails version.
DHH announced a beta version of Campfire rewritten in Rust using automated conversion. While the resulting code is verbose and considered ugly, the conversion was free and DHH didn't need to manually write or read the Rust code, viewing it as a compilation target rather than hand-written source.
A World of Warcraft Forever beta player died during the intro cinematic after another player placed a campfire at the spawn point, exploiting the fire damage mechanic. The griefing tactic gained widespread attention on Reddit with over 6,000 upvotes, with most players praising the creativity despite its annoying nature, and Blizzard is expected to patch the exploit before the game's official release next month.