Comment

masterofballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

Pleroma was supposed to be an instagram replacement I thought, idk if they reworked it so that it’s more like twitter now.

Its just a mastodon clone. Written in elixer. So its more light weight. I hate that its in elixer because I don't know any elixer. I've worked professionally in Java, Golang, C++, C#, Rust, python, various forms of JavaScript but no elixer. Fucking no one uses elixer. Not many use Ruby either which is what mastodon is running on.

Im not really interested in it either. I almost want to rewrite it but that would take at least one year. Easier to just learn elixer.

The federation feature is pretty sweet. Not sure it can ever make money but if I can take ten $ from zuckerturd and twitter and help bring about a less libtard future it will be worth any money I spend. fuck zuck.

source

Sort:hotnew top

squashkin@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
My apologies, I mixed this up with: https://pixelfed.org/ which is the insta clone I believe

I might be interested in learning elixir, does transcompilation work very well? like if you wanted to write in a language you know and transform it in to elixir? and you could learn basics of the language to check it or have someone else check it who knows the language

source
- masterofballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  I have no idea. Its a super functional language. With a VM like Java. messaging like golang. Things compile to byte code. Its kind of high level language so I dont think other languages can compile to it. Not like typescript -> Javascript
  
  source
  - squashkin@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    question: there's a "transcompiler" that translates elixir to javascript called elixirscript, could you translate it to javascript and then just code in javascript? and then updates (upstream is it called?) you could just keep translating as you add them from the main project
    
    of course I guess it depends on how well the "transcompilier" works which may require some knowledge of both languages to check it
    
    source
    masterofballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    No I don't think that will server for server code.
    
    source
  - iamtanmay@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    I feel so old.... already Golang and Rust were kind of beyond me. Wasn't interested in investing huge amounts of time to really understand them. My colleagues took 1 year to get decent in Golang.
    
    And now here is this Elixer thing... goddamn !
    
    source
    masterofballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    Golang shouldn't take long to learn it's a small language. I don't think elixer will ever have near golang market share
    
    source