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Sublinks Aims to Be a Drop-In Replacement for Lemmy (wedistribute.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Seems like an interesting effort. A developer is building an alternative Java-based backend to Lemmy's Rust-based one, with the goal of building in a handful of different features. The dev is looking at using this compatibility to migrate their instance over to the new platform, while allowing the community to use their apps of choice.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah but that's more on the coder. Like you indirectly say, they could just as well have had a single listener for community update events, since they all share the data structure for such events (I would assume, haven't looked around too much).

And to me as a professional java coder, I will say it's just not complex. The scaffolding you mentally discard after a week of working with Java unless you're looking for something related to do the scaffolding - and then it's cool that it's all explicitly there, this has helped me countless times in my career and is one of the big strengths of such verbose languages - and beyond that and some design choices I would not have made that way related to naming and organization, there's not much code there to begin with. In modern Java you might just do this in a lambda supplied in the place where you hook the events, anyways.