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[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 36 points 4 months ago

While some will claim that, I personally believe it's just as simple as the dev(s) doing good work. Code practices and readability goes a long way.

Both languages have relative popularity, but both are easy to debug, easy to work with. Both are good at what they do. Rust has an edge with raw speed and python with its community packages.

Looking at both codebases, I can tell you Piefed is immensely easier to parse and potentially make changes to. Lemmy is very hard to get into. At least for me. Don't get me wrong, both are awesome, but Lemmy is significantly harder to figure out what is going on.

Source: 18+ year software dev here.

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