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  • snap@lemm.eeEnglish
    59·
    9 months ago

    Interesting read about the Development Bystander Problem. I was indeed part of it. Maybe it is time to start contributing :)

  • d13@programming.devEnglish
    42·
    9 months ago

    Honestly, I’ve been thinking about contributing for a while. This is the push I needed. I’ll check it out!

  • gardner@lemmy.nzEnglish
    376·
    9 months ago

    I submitted a pull request that was shut down and the only feedback was “I don’t think this is the way we’d do it.”

    I know managing community contributions is a big task but if you want people to volunteer, a baseline amount of effort should be made to enable it.

    It’s also helpful to have automated tests to increase confidence that a change won’t break existing features.

  • TeamDman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    9 months ago

    Discord invite is expired, but it could be a mobile issue because apparently invites being invalid only when opening on mobile is a thing I’ve experienced…

  • LordKitsuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    9 months ago

    They definitely are in need of developers, there’s an open ticket for memory leak issues and I just checked last week with the latest Master branch and it still exists at least on my system. Even if you just start the server and then never interact with it in any way whatsoever never load the interface play anything the memory just slowly grows and grows and grows until the system runs out of memory.

    It also still has a lot of pretty basic media matching errors where it will pick the wrong show for files for some reason or just fail to find the show at all. I’ve seen lots of cases where the only way to match an anime is to use the Japanese name in the search even though that brings up the English name metadata and other Oddities like that. All of my stuff is organized and named by sonar using a very clean format that should be very friendly to finding metadata

    i actually know a number of developers that are interested in jelly fin as a concept but when I ask if they are going to contribute they just go “eww no it’s c# and .net i ain’t touching that”. Perhaps the developers should consider a rust rewrite lol, get the rust hype devs.

    • 1hitsong@lemmy.mlMEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      I’m been wanting to ask for a while, and now seems like a good time.

      Why do some programmers hate C# so much? What are the reasons for “eww no it’s c# and .net i ain’t touching that?”

      • Kogasa@programming.devEnglish
        13·
        9 months ago

        Microsoft.

        I’m a .NET dev, still hate Microsoft, but the language and ecosystem are fantastic. At least since .NET Core when it was mostly decoupled from Windows.

        • mild_deviation@programming.devEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          The misconceptions that persist to this day despite over half a decade of .NET Core are mind-boggling. MS has a steep hill to climb.

      • LordKitsuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        9 months ago

        i asked a few people and got the following answers

        "cuz: 1: its fake java 2: eats memory like java 3: .net on linux is l-o-l 4: unlike java there is no C# kotlin 5: other better things exist (java, javascript, go) "

        “the biggest issue with C# is that its just a fucking pain in the ass to use” (this one got several uses of a “yup” emoji reaction)

        “wtf is a compiler macro and why would i use one”

        "I dislike async/await garbage in most languages, this includes C#

        like you need to designate some functions async and others are non-async and sometimes you run into a situation where you need to block on async from sync and you’re basically fucked"

        • Kogasa@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          1. is smoking crack. .NET on Linux has been fine for years. Unlike Java there is no need for a .NET Kotlin (and there is F# if you really want a functional-first .NET language). If you want to call Java a “better” alternative to C#, power to you. But Javascript and Go shouldn’t be in the same conversation. Hence the crack.

          2. Might be thinking about .NET Framework, which is a pain in the ass to deploy. Modern .NET is completely different. Can’t think of many instances where the language itself works against me compared to Java.

          3. So you can conditionally compile code based on build-time constraints. For example, debug logging code can be removed entirely in the release build.

          4. Has a point, but this also disqualifies them from using almost any language with asynchronous programming.