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Ladybird web browser now funded by GitHub co-founder, promises ‘no code’ from rivals (devclass.com)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The demo on that link is literally Lemmy lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is it maybe that they're using the Lemmy frontend, but Sublinks for the backend? But yeah, still a bit weird...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

Probably because the project is just taking rust and making it Java....

Because they hate/don't want to learn rust and think Java is a superior language

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because they hate/don’t want to learn rust and think Java is a superior language

You know, that's not what I've read. It's worth mentioning that it doesn't just use Java.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It was their announcement reasoning. And notice none of it is rust

https://discuss.online/comment/5276375

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

announcement reasoning

...no it wasn't?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh sorry they'd rather not contribute to lemmy and not use rust

https://discuss.online/comment/7560301

Java isn’t my preferred language. I did learn Rust to try to contribute but found the code base in less than ideal state and the process of contributing to risky. They don’t always accept all PRs. I also have low faith in the success of Lemmy due to it’s poor QA process and it’s major lack of features.

I believe Java is the best option for this type of application, I almost did it in PHP. My goal was to attract as many people as possible to want to contribute. It’s worked, I have a ton of people contributing in some way, Sublinks roadmap is clear and organized, and we have a super-motivated and driven team.

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

Man, even if I somewhat understand Java as a choice, because it's basically the lowest common denominator for lots of devs, it is also that. It's not very fun to code in Java.
I've only looked into Spring Boot shortly, but that also looked like the antithesis of fun to me. Tons of boilerplate, heavy-handed processes, a million best practices and documentation to read before you know how to correctly use it.

I mean, if they want to do this, then more power to them. But fun is still important for projects that people do in their freetime...

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

why do something original when we can just copy because we say we don't like the devs?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Its better to fork than recreate the wheel.

Well, PRs are better, but when the devs ban their contributors or don't accept PRs, then at some point its best to fork. Lots of people have come to this decision

I'm looking forward to switching to Sublinks but it isnt ready