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.

    • @[email protected]English
      19•4 months ago

      Java has been around for decades longer than Rust, comparing total code numbers doesn’t tell the whole story

    • @kameecodingEnglish
      7•4 months ago

      That’s not the whole story, most of the Java code that exists is proprietary, java is undoubtedly #1

      • @asdfasdfasdfEnglish
        2•4 months ago

        You actually think there’s more Java code than JavaScript? Basically every website in the world feels the need to use JS nowadays.

        • @kameecodingEnglish
          -2•4 months ago

          obviously I wasn’t counting JS because by sheer volume, HTML+CSS+JS will outnumber everything because it’s the only combo for the browser.

          but if you restrict it as JS for Backend, then obviously it’s not even close to Java.

          • @asdfasdfasdfEnglish
            1•4 months ago

            If you can write off JS because “you have to use it because it’s the internet” then I can write off Java because “you have to use it for billions of 20 year old legacy applications”.

            • @kameecodingEnglish
              2•4 months ago

              I am not writing it off, I am saying it has no competition in the browser… therefore irrelevant to the discussion at hand.

              and btw, even in the link https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2023/4 Javascript is not first, Python is, over Java.

              but once again, you would actually have to look for the backed JS applications, you are not choosing java over JS for the web, at best you would choose JSF and that still uses javascript.

        • @kameecodingEnglish
          -6•4 months ago

          Js is not a real language and can’t hurt you

      • @[email protected]English
        5•4 months ago

        If only… More seriously, I want Lemmy/Kbin/Sublinks to succeed, and the development rhythm of Lemmy made me perplex for a while.

        A new option with a more popular language could address this.

      • @ArcherEnglish
        3•4 months ago

        Check the back of every dollar for an Oracle database support contract, that’s how they get you!