Seems like an interesting effort. A developer is building an alternative Java-based backend to Lemmy's Rust-based one, with the goal of building in a handful of different features. The dev is looking at using this compatibility to migrate their instance over to the new platform, while allowing the community to use their apps of choice.

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[–] Aatube@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Or Kotlin, which is much more "Java but good" as it even runs on the JVM

[–] beefcat@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, but then you still have an Oracle dependency in your stack 🤮

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

You can switch to Kotlin Native, which depends on C libraries, or Kotlin JS, which depends on whatever libraries your JS runner has. No matter whatever Oracle has done, they produce a pretty good library, API spec and OpenJDK.