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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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[-] Blaze@discuss.online 18 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

I'm only half joking.

[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 7 points 1 year 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 1 year ago
[-] Blaze@discuss.online 15 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 13 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[-] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago
[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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.

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