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shaiber

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    Comment #38563028

    Yes lots and lots of work, but we enjoy doing it :) About ballerina, there are similarities to wing, but at a high level it is focused on simplifying networking whereas Winglang is…

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    Comment #38562958

    Yea, no good way around IDE extensions. Hopefully if Wing gets popular enough the community will create extensions where there is demand for them. Also, thanks for taking the time …

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    Comment #38562755

    Thanks, and I agree with your reasoning, makes sense to provide objective data

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    Comment #38557343

    [I'm on the Wing team] Yes, but it's still in early days, you can see our support matrix here: https://www.winglang.io/docs/standard-library/compatibility-...

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    Comment #38557328

    [I'm on the Wing team] I get what you mean about adoption and maintenance overheads. On the adoption front, we are aware it takes time for languages to get adopted. We also plan to…

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    Comment #38549854

    [I'm on the Wing team] Wing is still in early days so we can't show very complex use cases yet, but as time passes developer use to build more and more complex things with it. Our …

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    Comment #38549782

    [I'm on the Wing team] The elevator pitch is that there are things we cannot do with existing languages, such as our inflights and their connection to preflights. This is because t…

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    Comment #38548157

    [I'm on the Wing team] Thanks for the feedback. We call it new because it is only a year old, and for programming languages its pretty young. It is just now getting mature enough t…

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    Comment #38548126

    [I'm on the Wing team] We currently support AWS, Azure and GCP with varying degrees of maturity. Since it's an open platform one can add any other cloud. More info here: https://ww…

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    Comment #38548083

    The short answer is that there are things we cannot do with existing languages, such as our inflights and their connection to preflights. The full version is here: https://www.wing…

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    Comment #38547814

    [I'm on the Wing team] Nice coincidence :) There is no plan currently to add a two-way sync between the simulator diagram and the code, and there could be technical difficulties to…

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    Comment #38546318

    Hey, I'm part of the Wing team, funny you mention the construct programming model as it comes from the CDK, which is Elad's (Wing's creator) previous project. Wing is also built ar…

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    Comment #38546243

    Hey, I'm part of the Wing team, Winglang is a general purpose programming language, not a framework, so there are less limitations on how far it can take the development experience…

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    Comment #38546166

    Hey, I'm part of the Wing team, I see where you're coming from regarding intermingling business logic with infra definitions. If it makes sense, these infra definitions are the fun…

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    Comment #38546083

    Hey, I'm on the Wing team, yes you are correct, cloud services, like object storage, are indeed first class citizens and you can use them as naturally in Wing as you would use basi…

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    Comment #37283942

    Hey, one of Wing's creators here. Happy to answer any question or discuss any feedback :)

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    Comment #36875415

    Thanks for the feedback. I get where you're coming from about a new language for inflight. We will have support for existing languages in the future, through an SDK, although you w…

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    Comment #36867019

    Good questions. 1. You can read about it in this blogpost: https://www.winglang.io/blog/2023/07/18/wing-cloud-launch Specifically this section: https://www.winglang.io/blog/2023/07…

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    Comment #36864937

    Hi, I'm one of the founders of Wing Cloud. I'd love to get feedback on what we're building and answer any question.

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    Comment #36489600

    The console is "source available". All the rest is fully open-source with MIT license.

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