The issue of attracting contributors is a funny one right now. We happen to be living in a time of plentiful new and interesting languages. Rust, D, Vale, and Elixir, for example, have all caught my attention by bringing things to the table that older, better-established languages don’t do as well. In order to benefit from them, and potentially help shape them into tools that benefit us even more, we have to use them. This is how we build a better future for ourselves, and for our field. IMHO, this is more important than maximizing the number potential contributors on every project. As a fairly new project, Lemmy is in a good position to make this trade-off.
(Also, having fewer contributors generally makes a project easier to manage, so the downside is not necessarily all down.)
I’m mainly glad they chose something with decent memory safety. This is important to me in systems that face the network or process external data.
Rust probably wouldn’t have been my first choice, because my early impression is that it seems ugly and awkward, so I don’t think I would enjoy using it. That doesn’t make it an objectively bad tool for the job.
On the front end, I just wish it was less reliant on JavaScript, such that basic functionality worked when scripts are disabled in the browser. Outside of that, TypeScript seems like a fine choice.
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The issue of attracting contributors is a funny one right now. We happen to be living in a time of plentiful new and interesting languages. Rust, D, Vale, and Elixir, for example, have all caught my attention by bringing things to the table that older, better-established languages don’t do as well. In order to benefit from them, and potentially help shape them into tools that benefit us even more, we have to use them. This is how we build a better future for ourselves, and for our field. IMHO, this is more important than maximizing the number potential contributors on every project. As a fairly new project, Lemmy is in a good position to make this trade-off.
(Also, having fewer contributors generally makes a project easier to manage, so the downside is not necessarily all down.)
I’m mainly glad they chose something with decent memory safety. This is important to me in systems that face the network or process external data.
Rust probably wouldn’t have been my first choice, because my early impression is that it seems ugly and awkward, so I don’t think I would enjoy using it. That doesn’t make it an objectively bad tool for the job.
On the front end, I just wish it was less reliant on JavaScript, such that basic functionality worked when scripts are disabled in the browser. Outside of that, TypeScript seems like a fine choice.