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by stachudotnet 828 days ago
I appreciate the feedback here.

The website, admittedly, needs a lot of work. We spent all of 2023 forking the project and having our heads down coding. Only at the end of year did we resurface to create a new homepage and stuff. So, it's a bit thin, and needs revisions. Personally I've kinda been punting that until we rewrite the site in darklang, but clearly many people are not appreciating the content on the site, so maybe that punting was a bad choice.

Appreciate the other ideas too -- responding to a bunch of comments now but will circle back to read this comment and process it fully. Cheers.

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I would strongly suggest (beg, really) throwing up a few sample use cases. So, so many new languages/libraries/frameworks/etc (possibly all of them, to be honest) don't even have a simple line saying why I would use it. It is always assumed that I have a workflow and I'm looking for a tool to improve that workflow and that some keyword/buzzword will catch my eye.

I'd love to be excited about Darklang but I don't even know what kind of context I would find it exciting in. I'm a web developer - does it even touch the domain of my projects?

Noted!

Yeah -- my history is all with web dev. APIs, server- and client-side rendered HTML. Web-RTC. Http Clients. all that jazz. Your use definitely fits - in the meantime, before the site updates are done, I implore you to review the status update linked in the main post, watch the video embedded, and try out darklang-classic to get a feel. If you want a deeper peek in to our code (well, a snapshot from a bit over a year ago), the first few minutes of https://stachu.net/darklang-for-fsharp-devs might be useful.