The Threadiverse is growing again, this time offering an effort to build a new Lemmy replacement from scratch, with API compatibility.

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.

    • Corngood@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Browsing the code makes me angry at how bloated Java projects are:

      package com.sublinks.sublinksapi.community.repositories;

import com.sublinks.sublinksapi.community.dto.Community;
import com.sublinks.sublinksapi.community.models.CommunitySearchCriteria;
import com.sublinks.sublinksapi.post.dto.Post;
import com.sublinks.sublinksapi.post.models.PostSearchCriteria;
import org.springframework.data.domain.Page;
import org.springframework.data.domain.Pageable;
import org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.JpaRepository;
import org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.Query;
import org.springframework.data.repository.query.Param;
import java.util.List;

public interface CommunitySearchRepository {

  List<Community> allCommunitiesBySearchCriteria(CommunitySearchCriteria communitySearchCriteria);

}

      Every file is 8 directories deep, has 20 imports, and one SQL statement embedded in a string literal. 😭

          • Rooki@lemmy.worldEnglish
            01·
            8 months ago

            But you really dont see what the function wants or requires or returns ( except with typehints, but they dont work most of the time and then its not enforced in any way )

            • Derin@lemmy.beru.coEnglish
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              8 months ago

              Larger, modern python projects always use type hints, for this specific reason.

              In the past you had PyDoc, which also scratched that itch.

              Barring that, contributing to a python project is very difficult without an IDE that performs type checks for you (which is unreliable).

              • Rooki@lemmy.worldEnglish
                01·
                8 months ago

                Correct! As i already contributing to a big ass python project at work. We will rewrite a Big Project from python to c# in under 1 month.

                • Derin@lemmy.beru.coEnglish
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                  8 months ago

                  Just you wait until your developers learn about the var keyword - it’s going to be Python 2.7 PTSD incidents all over again 😂

                  • Rooki@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    01·
                    8 months ago

                    Isnt that already default on all variables? Its like a var(in js)?