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Sublinks Aims to Be a Drop-In Replacement for Lemmy (wedistribute.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Seems like an interesting effort. A developer is building an alternative Java-based backend to Lemmy's Rust-based one, with the goal of building in a handful of different features. The dev is looking at using this compatibility to migrate their instance over to the new platform, while allowing the community to use their apps of choice.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Java is a corporate language that most devs hate. Rust (Lemmy) is more popular as a hobby language that devs enjoy hacking in for fun.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As a java dev, I can say that we hate working with java and love working with java at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ah, an anime consumer. Explain to me why FMA:B is the greatest anime ever made?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

fmab is another regular anime that's overshilled.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That's bullshit, frankly

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Java is a corporate language that most devs hate

Citation required, because strangely enough people whom I hear about complaining about Java never seem to be the good developers but the ones I wouldn't hire

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Hm, Java is hated by devs, but still 2nd language on GitHub with 11,7% of the total code hosted, while Rust is number 13 with 1,8%?

https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2023/4

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How much of that 11.7% is 35-character class names?

I'm only half joking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It’s by amount of pull requests, so the length of class names and other Java boilerplate doesn’t count.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Stockholm syndrome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And even more, the Lemmy codebase doesn't really have any important developers besides the two main devs: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/graphs/contributors.

Even looking at the contributions to something like Mbin, which has been around for much shorter, you already see 6 people with more than 50 commits, while Lemmy has one

https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/graphs/contributors

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

We have 13 contributors with Sublinks so far. I expect more will come after the announcement.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Java devs like you need to step away from the PC and stop assaulting the world with a terrible language. You should be ashamed of yourselves for inflicting decades of misery on the world.

Java will go the way of COBOL. The future is Nim.