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

submitted 10 months ago by deadsuperhero@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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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[-] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 31 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Blaze@discuss.online 18 points 10 months ago

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

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 26 points 10 months ago

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

I'm only half joking.

[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 16 points 10 months ago

Stockholm syndrome.

[-] Blaze@discuss.online 15 points 10 months ago

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

[-] jgrim@discuss.online 10 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 4 points 10 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.

[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago

You’re delusional if you believe people care about Nim. It has been around for 16 years and is still nothing in comparison to Java. Java won’t go anywhere and is here to stay.

[-] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago

You’re delusional if you believe people care about Nim.

Or, bare with me..........it's just a it o banter my son.

[-] kaffiene@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Or, bare with me.... It's being a wanker

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 13 points 10 months ago

"I'm right, and if anyone disagrees, it's because they're brainwashed"

There's literally no possible way to argue against this type of logic.

[-] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago

The weight of my intellect is a heavy burden to bear.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Irrelevant

[-] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 1 points 10 months ago

Typical Java dev attitude.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Thanks but I'm a network engineer, I'm just saying your argument is pointless, the majority of devs support a certain language. How they or you feel about it doesn't matter one bit.

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 10 points 10 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