Sublinks Aims to Be a Drop-In Replacement for Lemmy - programming.dev
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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.

Link to the thread: https://programming.dev/post/8969747

Hello everyone, I’ve followed this thread yesterday and noticed a few very negative reactions towards the choice of Java. I follow Java evolution from far away, but it seemed like it was evolving in a good direction since the last few years, and that performance-wise it would make sense for the back-end of a Lemmy-like platform.

Is it indeed the case? I was just curious to see that much negativity towards one of the most popular languages.

  • TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.pageEnglish
    17·
    10 months ago

    “Java bad” is a pretty long standing meme. I would guess that most peoples’ only experiences with java are in school and in monstrous, ancient corporate codebases.

    • Blaze@discuss.onlineOP
      3·
      10 months ago

      I guess. I learned a few things though, so it seems that new version of Java are optimized so that their footprint is similar to Go? That seems a nice improvement from a few years back

    • SatouKazuma@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      Speaking anecdotally, I’ve yet to see a modern Java codebase. But again, that’s just anecdotally, and I’m (truly) sure they exist. Just that I’ve not had the fortune of being around it. Is that a bad thing?

      • andnekon@programming.dev
        16·
        10 months ago

        Java is a boilerplate-driven language designed for writing verbose, object oriented, instant-legacy code