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TIL about this Fediverse software database (fedidb.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Today I discovered the Fediverse Software Database, and it’s a bit disheartening to see how many platforms have so few users. What are some ways we could help promote these smaller or newer Fediverse projects and give them more visibility?

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is Rust really so obscure? I'm not a programmer, but I seem to hear about Rust frequently in any remotely halfway-techy space.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not the person you are replying to, but I wouldn't call it obscure, no. It's getting used more and more in recent years and there are pushes to even use it for parts of the Linux kernel. However, it is a language that you wouldn't be familiar with unless you are most likely a professional software engineer (or a very dedicated hobbyist).

    One of the benefits of python is its relative ease of learning and readability make the codebase easier to understand and make contributions. I don't work in software, but I have made numerous contributions to Piefed for features that I have wanted in lemmy, but I haven't ever been able to wrap my head around rust.

    Nothing against lemmy though. Their codebase is a couple years more mature, and since they develop api-first, it is more feature complete from a mobile app's perspective. Piefed is developed web ui-first by comparison.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I hear about Python probably at least as much as I hear about Rust, to be fair. I looked at some Python code years ago and seem to remember the code looking more like a shell script than like other programming languages I had seen, so the ease and readability aspects make sense. If ever I do start programming, I won't start by learning Rust. Baby steps.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah "obscure" was definitely the wrong word there - maybe "niche"?

    Thank you so much for your contributions btw! In this era of disinformation, making the Threadiverse more usable can be an enormous boon:-).

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