@hongminhee
• The Apple development community already largely migrated to Mastodon very soon after Elon Musk took over Twitter, so the Apple devs are more likely to stay here because their community is here

@hongminhee
• There are lots of good JavaScript libraries available for hacking on any part of the AT stack (making it so easy to create a client that I got one up and running in a single weekend)
• The JavaScript development community (who never really made it over from Twitter) is finally posting somewhere other than Twitter and they’ve chosen Bluesky (I think for a lot of the reasons mentioned above)

@hongminhee I can only speak to my own experience and what I’ve heard from others, but I think it’s a lot of different factors:

• People like the features AT enabled over AP, like global search of the network and algorithmic timelines
• The people developing the app and the network are very active and excited to answer everyone’s questions
• The default apps are pretty good and extremely hackable for web devs

Where are the ActivityPub folks on Mastodon? I wanna learn more about how ActivityPub works at the technical level. I've really enjoyed learning about the AT Protocol over on Bluesky over the past week and I'd like to know more about ActivityPub too!

@steve so, while I understand and sympathize with this, I do think for practicality’s sake, it makes more sense to be explicit about it and call the data structure something like FixedSizeArray. But it’s not something I feel strongly enough about to do anything beyond posting this message 🤪

Especially since I already fought one losing battle on naming in Swift with Double. There’s no `Long`! But I digress…

@steve “wrong” by what metric?

@joe correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t “Vector” commonly understood to be analogous with “dynamic-sized array” in almost all popular systems programming languages? Why call this type Vector?