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this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2024
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MariaDB is a successful MySQL fork. LibreOffice is a successful OpenOffice fork. Even within the Fediverse, Mbin emerged as an actively developed fork from Kbin.
The choice of Rust limited the ability for people to contribute. If I had gotten a dollar every time I read "I would like to contribute to Lemmy, but I don't have time to learn Rust", I would get a beer to everyone in this thread.
Definitely. Sublinks with Java, Mbin with PHP and Piefed with Python already make it easier for people to contribute to the whole ecosystem.
As a side-note, how is it going on that side? It's been a while since the last time I checked.
Regarding status of fediverser: https://communick.news/comment/1760608
Still waiting for an update from NLNet
Good luck!
God I wish you get that grant. Your Fediverser project is super interesting and promising, and I think could be a great boon.
Thank you for your kind words, and if you don't mind me taking this opportunity to remind everyone that you can support me via github and (even better) by joining Communick. Getting the grant would be nice, but being able to get continued support from the people that are really part of the Fediverse would be the perfect way for me to contribute and give back as well.
Fingers crossed!
That's unfortunate. I think rust is particularly tailored to big projects with many contributors that need the performance boosts of a "low level" language. This goes especially for web apps, since they're likely to grow in size directly correlated to number of users and use time.
I get that the compiler is viewed as "training wheels" by the C and C++ coders, but it's nearly impossible to ensure memory safety on a large project without something or someone checking and enforcing it, since no one can be reasonably expected to parse thousands of lines of code and keep the data flow in mind at all times while considering edge cases and also trying to add on to it while other also grow it.
Rust is really not as hard to learn as some people claim. If they dont have time for this, how will they have time to contribute to Lemmy? Besides lemmy-ui is written in Typescript and could also use a lot more contributions.