Yesterday, muad’dibber had to quickly restore lemmygrad from a backup due to disk space issues on Lemmygrad’s host.
We didn’t have the info earlier because he’s super busy juggling between and fixing stuff on Lemmy, lemmy.ml and lemmygrad due to the Reddit migration. So please don’t take it too hard on him 🙏 he did what was necessary, there was no other option than to restore a backup, we just didn’t have the info.
That’s why I suggest that if you can code, you should help Lemmy! On our end we are starting to need better moderation tools (like being able to message the whole admin team would be great) to name just one. They have lots of issues open and probably even more now that lemmy has had a surge of activity, so any contribution to the code would help greatly!
Here’s the repo: https://github.com/LemmyNet
Is there any info on why rust out of all langs? Nothing against rust, but Java, python, c#, python would’ve been much more accessible for volunteers
Maybe it is a language the devs are most familiar with. Rust is also a good choice in terms of performance compared to Python, C# or Java. Rust is also a good choice in terms of memory safety. But who knows why especially Rust.
It’s very big in the open source development world. It’s the #1 enthusiast programmer language, I’d dare say.