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Sublinks Aims to Be a Drop-In Replacement for Lemmy (wedistribute.org)

submitted 1 year ago by deadsuperhero@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Java backend? What year is it?

[-] Blaze@discuss.online 43 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Blaze@discuss.online 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 0 points 1 year 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.

[-] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year 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".

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.