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Lemmy is in serious need of more devs [CROSS POST] (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/570507

After the (temporary) defederation announcement of earlier i checked the Lemmy repo to see if there was already a ticket on the federation limiting option like Mastodon’s that people mentioned Lemmy doesn’t yet have. Not only i didn’t find it, i also saw that there’s about 200+ open tickets of variable importance. Also saw that it’s maintained mostly by the two main devs, the difference in commits between them and even the next contributors is vast. This is normal and in other circumstances it’d grow organically, but considering the huge influx of users lately, which will likely take months to slow down, they just don’t have the same time to invest on this, and many things risk being neglected. I’m a sysadmin, haven’t coded anything big in at least a decade and a half beyond small helper scripts in Bash or Python, and haven’t ever touched Rust, so can’t help there, but maybe some of you Rust aficionados can give some time to help essentially all of Lemmy. The same can be said of Kbin of course, although that’s PHP, and there is exacerbated by it being just the single dev.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just started writing more rust code. And until now the borrowck only has been useful. The suggestions inside of the lsp feel like magic. Other lsps only scream at you when you've done something wrong. The rust lsp tells you how to do it right. And sometimes with such a high level of understanding of what I've written, it almost feels like a pair programmer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Things definitely got better with non-lexical lifetimes, yes, and that might be the reason that we don't see that many complaints about it, any more.

...but not because it won't at some point be an obstinate bridge troll pointing you in exactly the wrong direction actively hindering you from figuring out what you did wrong (without understanding the underlying semantics), but because people actually had positive interactions with it before, thus not immediately judging it all bad. But it's going to get you, too, just wait for it. It's looming, lurking, in the depths of the compiler, ready to strike when you least suspect :)