Every time I go to the piefed frontpage I'm blown away by how much more polished it is. It has all the bells and whistles that lemmy is sometimes missing.

Whats the catch? Why aren't we recommending everyone goes to piefed instead of lemmy?

App support is one thing I can think of.

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[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

using Python

Full disclosure: I like Python a lot and have written a lot of it.

That said, if not for my recent work experiences, I would be absolutely horrified at the idea of using Python for such a project. Between the type system and being interpreted, the performance and runtime issues are pretty painful. That and the historical greater dependence on external application servers really makes Python-based services something that really sucks to administer.

However, as I noted, I have also recently seen Python performing far faster than it has any right to with highly-optimized use of multi-processing and offloading the server stuff to Go.

I think I'm going to have to take a look at Piefed source this weekend.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 7 points 21 hours ago

Cool! Before you dive in, check this out https://join.piefed.social/docs/developers/