“This is how the Fediverse works. There is so much bad practices, so much haphazardly implemented functionality and so much bad API documentation all over the place that I wonder why nothing has extremely exploded so far.” - Dirk at lemmy.ml
Dirk is from Germany, not American like I am - and joined the same server I did - creating this site. The core developers left lemmy.ml crashing for months - now it’s working better because there is less activity - not because the code scales and is improved.
The terrible SQL from Rust and Diesel was why I never opened shop. I knew lemmy.ml was online for over 4 full years…
When a dozen independent projects are building front-end apps, the people with over 4 years of experience with the code take all that back-end experience and bottle it up. Instead of actually improving documentation and API testing surface… WITH ALL those YEARS of experience… off to start a new Rust-centered project. The advantage being that Rust can use the same Rust objects… but that doesn’t do anything for the front-ends that don’t use Rust, the smartphone apps, etc.
“This is how the Fediverse works. There is so much bad practices, so much haphazardly implemented functionality and so much bad API documentation all over the place that I wonder why nothing has extremely exploded so far.” - Dirk at lemmy.ml
Dirk’s comment is from hee: https://lemmy.world/post/4128651
Dirk is from Germany, not American like I am - and joined the same server I did - creating this site. The core developers left lemmy.ml crashing for months - now it’s working better because there is less activity - not because the code scales and is improved.
The terrible SQL from Rust and Diesel was why I never opened shop. I knew lemmy.ml was online for over 4 full years…
Another new front-end was the 2023 priority from all this. July 11 is when they started: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui-leptos
When a dozen independent projects are building front-end apps, the people with over 4 years of experience with the code take all that back-end experience and bottle it up. Instead of actually improving documentation and API testing surface… WITH ALL those YEARS of experience… off to start a new Rust-centered project. The advantage being that Rust can use the same Rust objects… but that doesn’t do anything for the front-ends that don’t use Rust, the smartphone apps, etc.