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What's the point of rewriting to Java from Rust?
I don't know what the rationale in that case is, but I'm sure that there are people who prefer Java to Rust for one reason or another.
Rust is, I think, generally-considered to be sexier, but then, Java has a hell of a lot of inertia behind it. Lot of code, lot of developers.
googles
https://jasongr.im/blog/why-i-started-sublinks/
It says that the lead dev on Sublinks learned Rust in order to contribute to Lemmy, before he got frustrated with scaling issues and went off to do Sublinks, so I'd guess that he probably had a lot of Java experience.
I'd personally say that probably both Java and Rust are reasonable languages to use for developing a Threadiverse server. Kbin is PHP, which is probably even less-sexy than Java, but hey, there are a lot of people out there who know PHP.
Way more developers that know and are comfortable with the language.