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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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[–] 21 points 2 years ago (32 children)

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.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (25 children)

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (22 children)

    Stockholm syndrome.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    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

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  • [+] -17 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    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.

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

    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.

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  • [+] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)
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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Irrelevant

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Typical Java dev attitude.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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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  • [+] -12 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 7 points 2 years 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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    As a java dev, I can say that we hate working with java and love working with java at the same time.

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