Comment on What is the best way to support Lemmy specifically and the Fediverse in general financially?
richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 1 week agoShitting on Rust while propping up Python, whose ecosystem receives every day more and more influx of Rust-based tools and libraries is… a weird choice.
OpenStars@piefed.social 1 week ago
It is your choice: you could look at the set of features that PieFed has and how quickly they were developed, and you could compare that to the requests sent to Lemmy for features that have not and seem at this pace like they will never be done, and you may conclude whatever you like.
Maybe it’s not the language, maybe the PieFed devs are just simply that good while the Lemmy ones are not, is that what you are implying?
Or maybe you don’t know the feature comparison between those two software platforms - fwiw I included a link above.
richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 1 week ago
I’m specifically complaining about you shitting on Rust. The other things you mention aren’t germane to your language-specific attack.
OpenStars@piefed.social 1 week ago
There are pros and cons to every language. Is what I said inaccurate? “Many developers are already familiar with” Python, whereas many people are not wanting to learn Rust. I’m not saying it’s not a good language (or that it won’t be one when it gets finished), but from the standpoint of how many people are willing to join a project to write code for the Threadiverse, it does hold back feature development.
richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 1 week ago
Your assertion that “many people are loathe to learn Rust” (with the obvious implication that it’s unworthy of attention) or that it is an "incomplete’ or “extremely niche” language, are unsubstantiated and insulting assertions themselves.