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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

this isn’t sneer material but I’m a bit too exhausted to post a thread specifically for it: I stumbled upon PieFed and it looks really promising — a few of the architectural decisions are similar to ones I’d make, and lately I’ve become a lot more open to running Python in production (and it’s going to be much less awful to hack on too)

this could be a viable path forward if we decide lemmy is a rotten codebase (it is) and PieFed gets closer to feature parity with what we’ve got now

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I’m really not a fan of Python (in general; the whole philosophy of that language is kinda opposite to my idea of programming) but I have to admit the project does look interesting at first glance.

And after glancing at the Lemmy codebase a few times I think that an alternative or at least competition is a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I just half-wrote a post in this textfield then snipped it

will dm elsewhere

(largely snipped because I'm too fucking out of spoons today to format it without edgepruning (which it probably deserves))