The Threadiverse is growing again, this time offering an effort to build a new Lemmy replacement from scratch, with API compatibility.

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.

  • loutr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Because modern Java is an OK language with a great ecosystem to quickly build web backends. And there are lots of java devs which means more potential contributors.

    • Fudoshin ️🏳️‍🌈@feddit.ukEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Hello world in Java = 500 lines of code.

      Hello world in Rust = 3 lines of code.

      Java is over-engineered corporate bullshit used by banks and Android development. Nobody programs Java for the fun of it.

      • BURN@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Hello World is < 10 lines in Java. Just say you don’t know the language and go away.

        Java runs the majority of corporate software out there, and it is very good at what it’s built for.

        I’ll take Java over Python/Rust any day of the week

    • 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social
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      10 months ago

      Exactly. It’s also using Spring Boot, Hibernate, and Lombok. It looks just like projects at work. It might be the first fediverse project I contribute regularly to.

      • Fudoshin ️🏳️‍🌈@feddit.ukEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Spring Boot, Hibernate, and Lombok

        Ah, yes. How about he kitchen sink and another 5000 dependencies to make Java bareable to code in? Actually lets skip Java cos it’s an over-engineered cluster-fuck that considers verbosity a virtue.