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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[–] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 49 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (23 children)

Java backend? What year is it?

[–] Blaze@discuss.online 43 points 10 months ago (3 children)

2024, Java is still the 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

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 19 points 10 months ago

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

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Blaze@discuss.online 2 points 10 months ago

Oh definitely, but I took GitHub as it should reflect "hobby projects"

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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".

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is Big Coffee paying you to shill Java all over this post?

[–] Blaze@discuss.online 5 points 10 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.

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

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