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 LockeEnglish
    10•11 months ago

    Yeah, Rust is cool, but every CS grad and their mother knows Java.

    Sure, twenty-five years ago, when Sun was pushing their language hard into colleges everywhere.

    Now? Sun Microsystems doesn’t even exist, and everybody hates the JVM in an ecosystem where VMWare, Docker, and Kubernetes do the whole “virtual machine” model much better.

    • Cosmic ClericEnglish
      10•11 months ago

      Now? Sun Microsystems doesn’t even exist

      That was a long, long, long time ago.

      Java has continued to be very popular after Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems.

    • @uranibaba@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7•11 months ago

      Can’t say I agree. It feels like an almost even 50/50 split between Java and C# when I look at job postings.