Comment on What differentiates Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and PieFed?
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 weeks agoThe idea behind Python is to get the community to contribute. More people know Python than Assembly or Fortran. At some point, running a FOSS project like Piefed becomes a numbers game. Having more developers is useful in the beginning.
If Piefed grows significantly, it might make sense to rewrite the whole thing in a different language, but right now, contributions matter more than efficiency.
So you set up a nice strawman with assembly and fortran there (which would never be used for a web server) instead of suggesting a realistic option like C# or the JVM, both of which have much larger communities of people that actually know what they’re doing.
You’d get just as many contributions in Java or Kotlin and the quality would be higher as well.
The decisions at the start of the project have the most influence on the project, more so than anything ever will later down the line.
Fair enough. Should have gone with C#. Would make a lot more sense. For some reason, my mind was wandering in all the wrong directions when writing that.
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
Or you follow the python ethos and when it matters, you profile the code, and rewrite only the modules that need it in a lower level language.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
That would make more sense. Best of the both worlds.