• C8H10N4O2@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This exactly. I’m a software engineer and I’m itching to contribute to one of these systems, but I do not agree with some of the stuff I’ve seen posted by one of the developers of Lemmy. It just leaves a sour taste in my mouth about the whole thing.

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      1 year ago

      Same here, despite the fact that Lemmy is built on Rust and React which I find far more technically interesting, I’ve decided to help out on Kbin, which is fullstack PHP.

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        1 year ago

        I’ve at least heard people defending PHP recently. Supposedly it’s, uh, better than before.

        That said if there was a community fork of Lemmy that people started organizing around I wouldn’t mind seeing if there was something I could help with.

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        1 year ago

        I wish I could have Kbin but in Rust + React (would be far more useful for me to learn than modern PHP). Guess we can’t have it all

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I’m probably going to bite the bullet and start working on Kbin too. I’ve avoided PHP for my entire career just by chance, so all I know are the memes and what I’ve read of (usually older) codebases. From what everyone says, modern PHP isn’t really that bad, and from what I can tell when perusing the Kbin source, the implementation is pretty clean.

    • iorale@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      The software is open-source, you or anyone who knows the language could fork it and work on it, hopefully someone less problematic.