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Every language has its niche (lemmy.world)
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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@pkill Yeah seems that way, judging by their scaling up documentation: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/scaling/

Although hey, it all depends on a whole bunch of stuff written in super optimised (and kinda scary) C !

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

    Those docs look pretty easy to scale mastodon. What am i missing?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    @towerful I mainly program in Go, so when I see all that extra software I notice how much easier it is when I get to just rely on the Go runtime. It does a lot of the heavy lifting done here, but the resulting code is not as clean. Actually just today I read through Mastodon’s code to track down a bug in my in-progress ActivityPub service (in Go) and found the Ruby really easy to navigate!

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