[HereBeBeasties]

I made a mistake mentioning Prometheus - it's the least important point in my post. I get that you may provide something for monitoring (performance and tracing, at least) that's more baked into the whole AST/graph model and that sounds really very compelling. And obviously end developers won't need to monitor the systems/services because as far as they're concerned there aren't any. It feels a bit like electric cars - a bunch of new (and hard) problems arise, but it's compelling as a bunch of older (also hard) problems just cease to be. Huzzah. I'll certainly agree with you that the potential upsides here are very large and very compelling.

But the need for things like code review tooling, test coverage reporting and mocking frameworks (yes, I will want to isolate stuff via mocks) aren't going to just disappear with this kind of model. They're far from exotic use cases for the kind of business customers you will need to scale this and get real adoption and thus positive cashflow, more of a necessity. It's a real leap of faith to think it's worth rebuilding so much of these kinds of ecosystems that have taken thousands of man years to evolve and develop for existing languages. And if you don't have plans to provide that sort of thing you'll be missing out on most of the market, I would have thought. Yes, you'll get hobbyists but surely they won't provide the volume or reliable subscription-style revenue you'll surely need to make this sustainable?

Unless of course your endgoal here is being bought out by Google, in which case fair play. This is cutting edge thinking and tech, full of nice hard problems to work on and lovely "oh but if we just don't have that then we don't need this either, or can do this like that instead" type insights to be made. Cool stuff, but it still won't get me to bet the farm on it. I really do wish you well though!

[pbiggar]

> And if you don't have plans to provide that sort of thing you'll be missing out on most of the market

Realistically, we're not going to have all those things at launch, but we will have them later.

I don't think you're correct to say that it's not possible to get revenue without supporting every single thing that a customer might possibly need.

The people who are good matches for using Dark are people who don't mind that they're missing, including companies who are willing to pay. When we add them later, the people who needed those can start using it.