I hope I didn’t sound like I wanted it to fail, I definitely think it’s great with different platforms.
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DarkenLM@kbin.social 1 year agoThings can still take a turn. There are a fuck ton and a half of pull requests still not pushed on the main branch that fopefully fix many issues.
Also, lemmy has been in development for quite a bit longer, so I wouldn't give up on kbin yet. At least I won't.
Ab_intra@lemmy.world 1 year ago
DarkenLM@kbin.social 1 year ago
It did sound a bit like you were cheering for it, but I understood the message you were trying to transmit.
Ab_intra@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, unfortunately sometimes things can be misunderstood by how we write…
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
You can edit your post to be clearer, you know…
demesisx@infosec.pub 1 year ago
I mean, Kbin is written in PHP and Lemmy uses Rust. If I went with just that knowledge alone, I’d say that Kbin would have trouble attracting developers since PHP isn’t exactly a hip new language like Rust is.
DarkenLM@kbin.social 1 year ago
Not being a hip new language is an advantage on my books, and on many others'. PHP has been battle-tested and was once (and in a way, still is) a pillar of the internet. Stability always trumps novelty. Rust wasn't exactly created with the internet in mind, but PHP was, and it's way easier to find PHP developers than it is to find Rust developers (last time I checked).
Though the performance boost provided by Rust over PHP is not something to be ignored, though servers written in C or C++ have also been around for quite a while, and PHP still managed to trump many them.
demesisx@infosec.pub 1 year ago
You may be right but the popularity of a language has a huge effect on the number of people willing to contribute to a project.