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.
Sounds sincere to me. I don’t think he meant he just started learning rust from hello world the other day and now wants to improve lemmy.
Oh yeah, I’m actually a software engineer. I had experience with C and Java, as well as some higher-level languages like Javascript and Python, so for learning Rust it has mainly moreso been learning which function is in which library and how the syntax for the language works, rather than learning programming fundamentals.
Oh my sweet summer child :)
Remember that borrowck is not out to hurt you, it wants to help you, guide you towards enlightenment, and does so with grandfatherly kindness: Making you feel completely stupid.
If you hit a wall make sure to check out the Rust book and work through it, or at least read it: Unless your language background is very specific (let’s see C/Pascal or such, plus Haskell, plus very obscure research-grade ML dialects with region-based memory management) Rust semantics are going to kick your ass sooner or later.
