Hi everyone, welcome, ect… It might go without saying but lemmy is open source! The platform is written in rust and typescript (which is a big pro for me). I’m sure we all have our little gripes with the platform, and those are fixed with collective teamwork :)
These are “good first issues”, here is a contributing guide), and here is a chat where developers coordinate.
Let’s make the best link aggregator!
How hard is it to get spun up on rust? I have been a dev for the better part of a decade but pretty much exclusively in java and python (and a wee bit of dartlang - yuck), primarily on the backend of a SaaS product. I’ve never contributed to open source before.