[adrienjt]

How coupled is Dark with the Dark language? I understand that the purely functional nature of the language makes its integration with the rest of the platform easier, but the blog post doesn't go into much detail about that. What would it take to integrate Dark with: a) another (existing) purely functional language, and b) a general-purpose language, e.g., Go? Could a code intelligence tool like Sourcegraph help?

[pbiggar]

Extremely tightly coupled. That's kinda the point "what can we do if we don't have to couple dark to anything else" (eg editors, other languages). I can't imagine how you'd couple Dark to another language, but I also don't see the point?

[adrienjt]

Thank you. My point was risk mitigation, which I discussed in another reply (which you answered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20399267 )

[pbiggar]

Yeah, the bigger picture here is that there's a ton of valid reasons why people can't use Dark right now. Of course there is, we're a small team with an early product. Once we show that this is really a better/faster/easier way to make backends, then we can start working on handling the risks and constraints of more teams.

[adrienjt]

That makes sense. It does look like you're very close to that first objective though. Congrats! Your blog post very clearly describes what Dark actually is (which was still unclear before I read it).