I’m out of the loop.

  • CodePy@livy.one
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    1 year ago

    Probably not the reason. Rust is just more systems level and performant than interpreted PHP

    • Yozul@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Also Lemmy has been kicking around as a hobby project for a couple years. kbin.social, the flagship kbin instance, was first opened in April. They haven’t even made tools for starting new instances easily yet, and went from a few hundred users to tens of thousands of users basically overnight. It’s a miracle that kbin.social is even still running at all.