It’s not Lemmy markdown. The implementation used in lemmy-ui (specifically) is markdown-it. And yes it’s special (not in a good way).
Some of us advised Lemmy devs to switch to a CommonMark implementation before it’s too late. That would have allowed for using higher quality and faster implementations, not to mention allowing/easing better interop. But the devs weren’t interested in the suggestion.
The Rust hype at least makes sense.
In technical context, yes. I’m a Rustacean myself.
In business/marketing context, …
It’s not you who needs it.
It’s for buzzword chasers and cost cutters.
Rust (=> fast and hip)
Shared (=> outsourced)
AI generated (=> robot devs)
Get it?
A reminder that the Servo project has resumed active development since the start of 2023, and is making good progress every month.
If you’re looking for a serious in-progress effort to create a new open, safe, performant, independent, and fully-featured web engine, that’s the one you should be keeping an eye on.
It won’t be easy trying to catch up to continuously evolving and changing web standards, but that’s the only effort with a chance.
survey participants != all rust developers
In fact, there is no reason for experienced Rust developers to participate in such surveys at all. I don’t.
Hell, the way the survey results are covered (not just here) tells me that maybe we should push for it to never be done (officially) ever again.