This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @nutomic@lemmy.ml and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.

Original Announcement thread

  • Xylight@programming.devEnglish
    28·
    11 months ago

    How much experience did you have with Rust when you started making Lemmy? What programming languages did you use before?

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      33·
      11 months ago

      Just a little, on a few side projects. But lemmy was the one that I used to teach myself rust. Before I was mainly a Java developer.

      Having a good idea + learning the new thing to program it in, is one of the best motivators for me, as I’m sure it is for a lot of devs.

    • nutomic@lemmy.mlMEnglish
      23·
      11 months ago

      I had zero experience with Rust before. Writing code for Lemmy was how I learned it. Didnt read any docs or books, just writing code and searching around how to solve my concrete problems. That approach works very well for me. Before that I was working on Android with Java, Kotlin and some Scala. Also used all kinds of different languages before that, PHP, C++, Delphi, Python, C and assembly in university (ugh)…