The Threadiverse is growing again, this time offering an effort to build a new Lemmy replacement from scratch, with API compatibility.

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.

  • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    10 months ago

    an alternative Java-based backend to Lemmy’s Rust-based one

    Going from a modern well-designed language to an old-and-busted, kitschy, memory-hogging, bloated language. This is literally a step backwards.

    Rust, Go… hell, even Ruby-on-Rails or whatever Python is offering nowadays would be a better choice.

    • beefcat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Or C#, it’s literally “Java, but good”.

      The only time I would choose Java for a new project is if I had a hard dependency on something that only works with Java…