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this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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It's looking great! I joined just 2 days ago and the communities I subscribed to are already looking much more lively today. Thanks, Reddit blackout!
Also written in Rust, btw :)
How do you know something is developed with Rust?
Check the GitHub! It’s linked at the bottom of the web page (“Code”)
I've also found this to be true with Julia devs
Source: am Julia dev
Weirdly enough the fact that it’s written in rust is why I am using it instead of kbin (PHP)
What makes rust so special?
God damn! Okay now I'm fully behind it
Fast because it's pointer-based like C/C++, but better because it's memory safe, which means it won't crash, leak or mysteriously overwrite it's own data constantly.
I'd say that it's fast because it's compiled to machine code and doesn't use garbage collection. But I see what you mean with "pointer-based".
Rust is a very good language but is relatively new on the scene so it has to compete against other languages that fit the same niche(primarily C++) that have been around a lot longer.
Rust has been very popular for hobby projects for a while but it's still pretty rare to see it for larger projects, and you still almost never see it for enterprise projects. So it's cool seeing an app that uses it blow up.
PHP!? They're writing the shiny new thing in the joke language from r/ProgrammerHumor?
Exactly right?
To the average Redditor I guess its fine, but to me its unacceptable haha.
Repo link: https://github.com/ernestwisniewski/kbin
Welp, I guess I chose right after all.
There is:
lol
Imagine letting the circle jerk program you like that.
Hello future person, Kbin is dead now. You can go ahead and give me your pitch for why PHP is a great programming language, though - I've never used it.
You could also word that as "deferring to other people with more experience trying to use PHP".
It gets a lot of hate. But it also drives a whole bunch of large businesses, and a lot of products. Its not trendy, but it gets the work done. In the past there were many bad products made ontop of it, but those products made sales, so were they really all that bad?
Its popular to use it like a punching bag, but the reality is its sigificantly better than the time period where most of the "hate" comes from. A time before javascript.
Its funny, people struggle to hit c10k with modern application stacks, but we had been doing it since before the iPhone.
I quite like it, its quite clean, the tooling isn't painful, and its fairly easy to make applications go fast.
tl;dr its a conservative technical choice, and ergo, unfashionable, but also drives a good portion of the internet.
Disclosure: I write PHP unless I have a good reason not to, I also do some .Net and some Go.
Interesting to hear it's fast.
Saying "you can use it and it has been used a lot" feels a bit like faint praise, on the other hand. I appreciate the effort to write me up a reply, though.
Honestly, keeping the excitable children in TypeScript-land is for the best. I just wish they'd shut the fuck up about their AI workflows while I'm around.
It is quite performant, most of the performance issues are more bad architecture than anything else.
Also it scales horizontally rather well without requiring me to build the infrastructure out before the need is there.