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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[–] Blaze@discuss.online 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Seems like here the number of developers comfortable in Java is a dependency

[–] beefcat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I understand that being a problem for Rust, but not for many of the other "better than Java" languages on this list. Like, I dunno....C#?

If I'm being honest though, I just really hate Oracle, and that's enough to give me pause over anything they dip their fingers in.

[–] Blaze@discuss.online 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2023/4

3.4% vs 11.7%

[–] beefcat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I said it was easy to find C# developers, not that there were more of them on Github.

If the number of possible contributors on github is the big factor here then Python is the obvious choice at 18%.

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