Right now, I'm feeling concerned and wondering what is going on in regards to Sublinks here, since I have created a community for discussion on koalas about a week ago on here and have started and been doing work on it recently. But now I'm hearing about Sublinks and feeling concerned if I created it on the wrong instance or the wrong platform since I'm now just recently hearing about it. I'm just feeling worried and wondering whether or not if I should do anything or not.
Can someone explain to me why sublinks was started as a project? If the main difference is improvements to the moderation tools, it feels like it could have just been a PR to lemmy.
I'm trying my hardest to not assume it's the classic "Java engineers are scared of other languages" meme
It literally is. The main maintainer didn’t want to learn Rust.
So rather than the relatively simple task of learning rust (honestly not that tough for any half decent engineer, a couple of weekend toy projects had me more or less up to speed with it) they're going to rebuild and track lemmy API changes—a technically endless task?
And I've just seen it's Spring Boot too, which I'm fairly sure most of the industry is trying to move away from.
Shame the engineers want to spend all that effort that would be better spent improving lemmy rather than fracturing development resources between the two projects.
~~I've now gone from ambivalent towards this to actively hoping it fails.~~
Edit: see the above comment's blog post for more context that changed my mind
That would be news to me, someone in the industry, who works with Spring Boot.
Got anything to back that up?
They don’t because it’s not true.
There’s a few things moving to quarkus, but a lot of that is being pushed by Redhat (whose own software was not even spring boot but JEE)
Unfortunately given I've not been an active java engineer in over a decade, I'm getting this from conversations I've had and presentations I've seen from the Java engineers at my workplace and that I've previously worked with. I'm genuinely happy to be corrected though, I've definitely not got a horse in the Java framework race, at any rate.
Perhaps I'm/they're mistaken, but I've got the impression from them that everything is heading towards Micronaut or Quarkus (and perhaps others that people I work with aren't looking at) if you're sticking with Java, and starting something new in SB would be against that direction of travel. Might be worth pointing out that a few of the Java devs seem to be doing more in kotlin as well, so perhaps it might be more to do with that and I've got the wrong end of the stick.