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I guess that means it's dead, as there's no way a corporation would pay millions to acquire a competitor just to continue developing a free alternative to their own product

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Since a couple years ago they abandoned the php version (=nextcloud) and they are in the process of a complete rewrite in go, which that means is faster and uses less resources but all existing plugins need to be rewritten too, and given the small user base nobody is going to do that.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And Java will still be active long after the heat-death of the universe

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If python is still around why not?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Just to support all the COBOL.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Ooh interesting, never knew they started a rewrite!

The reports of poor performance with the PHP version was one of the things that pushed me towards using Syncthing instead when I was looking for a solution to view my documents and files from various devices

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hold on... owncloud is in go? I have much higher hopes for that. PHP is terrible, even to manage.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

they call it "owncloud infinite scale" but for some reason they don't clearly specify that it's designed for performance, and it has nothing to do with the previous version. They even start the introduction page with this:

Welcome to oCIS, the modern file-sync and share platform, which is based on our knowledge and experience with the PHP based ownCloud server.

If you read that a platform is based on their knowledge and experience with PHP, would you guess that they're talking about a complete rewrite in go?