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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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Who cares? If it works, it works.

The biggest strength of Java is that many programmers has years or even decades of experience in it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

i know right! same thing with PHP! many progs decades experience hahaha

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Same thing with COBOL! So many devs with ... Wait. Are any COBOL devs even alive still?

[–] CosmicCleric 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Same thing with COBOL! So many devs with … Wait. Are any COBOL devs even alive still?

I promise you one thing, those that are still alive are making bank right now.

[–] Carighan 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Usually at banks, where they easily earn 2x+ of what I do working in Java. I happen to know one IRL, and their meetings with the boss are funny because it doesn't really matter what number they put on the table, their boss cannot fire them. They could not replace them and they need 2+ COBOL devs in house.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

i took some cobol, i am very annoyed i did not stick with it. i could have retired by now.

[–] CosmicCleric 0 points 10 months ago

I happen to know one IRL, and their meetings with the boss are funny because it doesn’t really matter what number they put on the table, their boss cannot fire them. They could not replace them and they need 2+ COBOL devs in house.

I can concur, I've seen the same thing in real life myself. Definitely a blast watching the employee have the power.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

PHP has been having a resurgence in popularity because it works.

[–] hansl 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

PHP never went away. Wordpress, Mediawiki, Slack, Facebook, etc etc etc. IMO PHP is likely to have created the most wealth per line of code of all languages, including C (edit: since 2000). It’s completely under the radar.

[–] twistypencil 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I care, as someone who self hosts and have been doing so for 22 years. Java has always been the most annoying thing to maintain as a holster, especially on low resourced machines, like my raspi

[–] kameecoding 2 points 10 months ago

Java is for enterprise level software that's robust not for self hosting on a pi

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You self host lemmy.world?

[–] twistypencil 5 points 10 months ago

No, why does that matter?

[–] dylanTheDeveloper 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also you don't have to worry about memory management

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

You don't with Rust either.