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Dark emerges with ‘deployless’ software model

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Re: Dark emerges with ‘deployless’ software model

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The page for the language is here - https://darklang.com/ but sadly no technical details appear to be publicly available at this time.

I'm not convinced. The authors cite sources of complexity that are mostly domain-specific artifacts of web development, yet make pretty broad claims about a fundamental advancement in language design. Maybe the authors have some insight about these pain points, but it certainly doesn't seem necessary to create a whole new language to solve them, especially as frameworks such as gRPC have already (at least partially) solved one of these supposed fundamental issues without replacing the base programming language.

Re: Dark emerges with ‘deployless’ software model

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The page for the language is here - https://darklang.com/ but sadly no technical details appear to be publicly available at this time.

I'm not convinced. The authors cite sources of complexity that are mostly domain-specific artifacts of web development, yet make pretty broad claims about a fundamental advancement in language design. Maybe the authors have some insight about these pain points, but it certainly doesn't seem necessary to create a whole new language to solve them, especially as frameworks such as gRPC have already (at least partially)…

I am not convinced either. Getting a language off the ground is a 10 year affair, don't think its possible for a funded company to bring up a new language unless they are targeting some niche where full scale programmability is not a requirement.
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