Comment on What is the best way to support Lemmy specifically and the Fediverse in general financially?

• OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  written in Python (which many developers are already familiar with, rather than the extremely niche Rust that even experienced C++ coders are loathe to have to learn)

  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.

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  • 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.

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    • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I never said it was unworthy, just that for whatever reason, people are not doing it. And… it is incomplete? And perhaps “extremely” niche is the wrong phrase but definitely “common” is something that it is not.

      Again, I have not asked you to take my word for it: compare the feature sets yourself to see the empircal evidence with your own eyes.

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      • richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        people are not doing it

        Ah, yes of course. The community of Rust programmers is full of imaginary beings, holograms and simulations.

        it is incomplete

        Care to specify what is missing?

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