About two days ago we found a bug with the registration system on lemmy. Because of this we have updated our registration process a few times, and cannot deny any applications as the person registering does not receive any message and cannot re-apply.
We currently have several hundred people that we are waiting to deny, and some unknown amount of people that we denied prior to finding this issue which we would really like to contact and give them a chance to register as they didn’t write enough in their registration for us to really evaluate if they were a good fit for this instance.
If you’re a developer please take a look at this github issue and please work your magic to help fix this problem.
As an aside, we also have a list we’ve been working on for enhancements that would make moderating and administering this instance a lot easier, and enhancements we think users would enjoy in terms of UI and UX. We’d love to share these as well as facilitate a discussion to surface more ideas (and we plan to in the future), but right now we need to focus on the most pressing issue to us running this website, whether people can create an account here and participate.
Scala and Rust don’t have that much in common I think. Rust is closer to C++ than to Scala (unless Scala has changed significantly since I last used it years ago).
To be honest when I say a while ago I mean a really long time ago, I remember hearing about it being popular for its functional programming features but also as a C++ replacement and I’ve not kept up since so it might just be the latter now.
Never heard that. Rust is an imperative programming language. It has a few features from functional languages just like C++, Java, etc. have a few functional aspects.
The entire type and class system is basically taken from Haskell
Rust is an imperative programming language with strong functional programming influences. It started out implemented in ocaml.
The main functional programming influences are a strong functional programming-esk type system and heavy use of pattern matching.
The syntax is a bit odd though, neither fully matching C style syntaxes or functional syntaxes like ML or Haskell.
Apparently they’re still an influence according to the docs.