I know that Lemmy is open source and it can only get better from here on out, but I do wonder if any experts can weigh in whether the foundation is well written? Or are we building on top of 4 years worth of tech debt?

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    1 year ago

    I have a friend that’s a lot more technical than me and he said that Lemmy’s codebase is kinda messy and relies on libraries that are still in beta and have not been tested well in the real world (since Rust is a relatively new language). This was a few months ago though, I’m not sure how much things changed since it’s been getting a lot more support and rewrote the front-end. The good news is it’ll get a lot better as more developers contribute to it.

    I think a lot of people assume that because it’s written in Rust that means it has to be super stable but that really isn’t the case.