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by jasim 2521 days ago
I'm very excited about this idea and have even asked for an early access invite.

These days I don't care about being in full control of my back-end stack - I just want to build something and ship it with least hassle as possible. I don't want to deal with provisioning, infra as code, containers, orchestration, message queues, load balancing, autoscaling, build configs and sundry.

I just need a statically typed functional language in which I can do that, which Dark is - it seems to have an Elm/OCaml inspired language.

Being fully tied to their platform with no alternative to migrate away to is the least pleasant aspect of the product as it stands today. But the product isn't even public yet - it is a difficult problem space that is badly in need of innovation and simplification - and many things are yet to be figured out. I'd be charitable to that aspect and see what as an industry we can learn from what Dark is doing.

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> I just need a statically typed functional language in which I can do that, which Dark is - it seems to have an Elm/OCaml inspired language.

Is there some information about the language somewhere? I don't seem to find any information from the site.