Yeah “obscure” was definitely the wrong word there - maybe “niche”?
Thank you so much for your contributions btw! In this era of disinformation, making the Threadiverse more usable can be an enormous boon:-).
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wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz 3 weeks agoNot the person you are replying to, but I wouldn’t call it obscure, no. It’s getting used more and more in recent years and there are pushes to even use it for parts of the Linux kernel. However, it is a language that you wouldn’t be familiar with unless you are most likely a professional software engineer (or a very dedicated hobbyist).
One of the benefits of python is its relative ease of learning and readability make the codebase easier to understand and make contributions. I don’t work in software, but I have made numerous contributions to Piefed for features that I have wanted in lemmy, but I haven’t ever been able to wrap my head around rust.
Nothing against lemmy though. Their codebase is a couple years more mature, and since they develop api-first, it is more feature complete from a mobile app’s perspective. Piefed is developed web ui-first by comparison.
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wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I hear about Python probably at least as much as I hear about Rust, to be fair. I looked at some Python code (years ago) and seem to remember the code looking more like a shell script than like other programming languages I had seen, so the ease and readability aspects make sense. If ever I do start programming, I won’t start by learning Rust. Baby steps.