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Sublinks Aims to Be a Drop-In Replacement for Lemmy (wedistribute.org)
submitted 2 years ago by 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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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Or C#, it's literally "Java, but good".

The only time I would choose Java for a new project is if I had a hard dependency on something that only works with Java...

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Seems like here the number of developers comfortable in Java is a dependency

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    I understand that being a problem for Rust, but not for many of the other "better than Java" languages on this list. Like, I dunno....C#?

    If I'm being honest though, I just really hate Oracle, and that's enough to give me pause over anything they dip their fingers in.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think C# is probably more popular than it advertises here, but not on GitHub.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    C# is regularly under-represented in OSS, in part because for most of it's existence, the primary implementation (.NET Framework) was not open source or cross platform. It is also very popular in fields where open source is not the norm (game development, bespoke backend infrastructure, embedded apps).

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago*

    I said it was easy to find C# developers, not that there were more of them on Github.

    If the number of possible contributors on github is the big factor here then Python is the obvious choice at 18%.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Or Kotlin, which is much more "Java but good" as it even runs on the JVM

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