On: De-cloud and de-k8s – bringing our apps back home

[porker]

> This is the Java library that ES is based on.

Based on, but Elasticsearch is not just a server wrapped around the library. Features ES has are not in Lucene, otherwise anyone could release a competitor by wrapping the library.

> It should be easy to port to any language.

You win the "Most Hacker News comment of March 2023" award. This thread is talking about less effort, and you bring up porting Lucene to another programming language.

[lmz → porker]

I thought it was already ported to other languages eg. https://clucene.sourceforge.net/

Not sure about feature parity though.

[prmoustache → porker]

> Based on, but Elasticsearch is not just a server wrapped around the library. Features ES has are not in Lucene, otherwise anyone could release a competitor by wrapping the library.

Those competitors exist.