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Can you code? We need your help to improve lemmy (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Gaywallet@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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About two days ago we found a bug with the registration system on lemmy. Because of this we have updated our registration process a few times, and cannot deny any applications as the person registering does not receive any message and cannot re-apply.

We currently have several hundred people that we are waiting to deny, and some unknown amount of people that we denied prior to finding this issue which we would really like to contact and give them a chance to register as they didn't write enough in their registration for us to really evaluate if they were a good fit for this instance.

If you're a developer please take a look at this github issue and please work your magic to help fix this problem.

As an aside, we also have a list we've been working on for enhancements that would make moderating and administering this instance a lot easier, and enhancements we think users would enjoy in terms of UI and UX. We'd love to share these as well as facilitate a discussion to surface more ideas (and we plan to in the future), but right now we need to focus on the most pressing issue to us running this website, whether people can create an account here and participate.

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[–] aksdb@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Scala and Rust don't have that much in common I think. Rust is closer to C++ than to Scala (unless Scala has changed significantly since I last used it years ago).

[–] mobyduck648@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be honest when I say a while ago I mean a really long time ago, I remember hearing about it being popular for its functional programming features but also as a C++ replacement and I’ve not kept up since so it might just be the latter now.

[–] aksdb@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

popular for its functional programming features

Never heard that. Rust is an imperative programming language. It has a few features from functional languages just like C++, Java, etc. have a few functional aspects.

[–] flibbertigibbet@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

Rust is an imperative programming language with strong functional programming influences. It started out implemented in ocaml.

The main functional programming influences are a strong functional programming-esk type system and heavy use of pattern matching.

The syntax is a bit odd though, neither fully matching C style syntaxes or functional syntaxes like ML or Haskell.

[–] mobyduck648@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently they’re still an influence according to the docs.

[–] aksdb@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Sure, but I still wouldn't choose Rust if I wanted a functional programming language. Because it's not one. I would pick Haskell or Scala or whatever.

[–] aponigricon@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

The entire type and class system is basically taken from Haskell

[–] mustyOrange@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How hard is going from C# to rust? Ngl, I absolutely loath C++ syntax

[–] aksdb@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

No matter the language, Rust is just a different beast. You don't do OOP the way you do in C#, so you will have to change your expectation how code is designed. And you will have a very very hard initial (!) learning curve to get used to the borrow checker, which is Rust's biggest strength. It's absolutely worth learning and you will learn something to take "back" to other languages as well. But it's not easy. No matter your background.