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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

In case twitter dies soon: - - RSS: - - ⭐️ Working on a mastodon

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Darklang

@darklang

5 years

Today, we’re (finally!) ready to show you Dark in action. We hope you like it as much as we do. See a demo and more on the philosophy behind Dark:

Unveiling Dark

Today we’re unveiling Dark and moving into private beta.

medium.com

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Darklang

@darklang

10 months

We have added a banner to our website, calling for the freedom of Palestine and an end to the war on the people of Gaza. You can read our founder @paulbiggar 's statement at

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Darklang

@darklang

5 years

Here's what it looks like to make a "hello world" API endpoint in @darklang . (Yup, the entire process is this gif).

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Darklang is going all in on AI/GPT

Darklang is going all-in on AI

Like an aging rock star making a final stab at glory, I'm delighted to announce that Darklang is going all in on AI/GPT. As everyone knows, the folks over at OpenAI produced a magic box that writes...

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

I'm as shocked as you, but the @darklang backend rewrite is actually complete!

I'm as shocked as you, but the Darklang backend rewrite is actually complete

For the first few years of the life of Darklang, each time we didn't have a library available for our OCaml-based backend, or decided to build a feature in our DB instead of on a proper cloud server,...

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

🎉 The fifth and final part of @darklang 's rewrite into F# -- the editor's execution engine -- is complete 🎉

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Darklang

@darklang

5 years

Want to read about building an app in @darklang instead of watching a ten minute video? Here you go:

Building an Office Sign-In in Dark

We’ve just released a demo video of Dark. The demo is building out an office sign in application. You choose who you’re visiting (a host)…

medium.com

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Darklang

@darklang

5 years

Excited to announce the investors who have supported us over the past two years of working in stealth:

Dark Announces $3.5M in Seed Financing

Today we’re announcing that Dark has raised $3.5M in seed funding. We actually raised our funding back in 2017, and have been quietly…

medium.com

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Darklang

@darklang

5 years

Dark is built from the ground up for continuous delivery. Here's how we help you deploy code in 50 milliseconds:

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

New backend has been rolling out all week. Performance is looking good

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Darklang

@darklang

4 years

Dark now has a roadmap

Dark v2 Roadmap

tl;dr there's a Dark v2 roadmap [https://roadmap.darklang.com/] now. There are a number of things missing for Dark to be able to have product market fit: * Dark lacks SDKs for 3rd party APIs * Dark...

blog.darklang.com

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Darklang

@darklang

7 months

We've just shared an overdue update on our journey. This past year, we've been reimagining Darklang, focusing on a new CLI runtime and embracing AI.

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Darklang

@darklang

4 years

team @darklang celebrating new things that shipped this week including new stdlib functions, performance improvements, and better custom domain support!

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Darklang

@darklang

5 years

We'll be revealing Dark at 9:00am PT! (Also @ellenchisa is basically making this same expression rn).

Bastian Stein

@wombat9000

5 years

@darklang when can we expect the reveal? my body is ready

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Darklang

@darklang

5 years

Thank you so much to everyone who gave us more info on in the last couple days. We were overwhelmed. There were more than 600 well qualified projects that requested immediate access, and we're working on it!

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Darklang Release 3

(Now that the big bad rewrite is done, we've moved Darklang to monthly releases). Darklang Release 3 contains the changes from June 2022, and has a lot of small wins enabled by the rewrite. It's also...

blog.darklang.com

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Darklang

@darklang

5 years

We're excited to have supported @stevekrouse 's work on looking at the programming-ish tools that will create and inspire software development in the future:

Steve Krouse

@stevekrouse

5 years

I'm excited to share The Whole Code Catalog: my reviews of two-dozen programming-ish tools to inspire the creators of tomorrow's programming languages and computational mediums

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Darklang

@darklang

3 years

Darklang's Year In Review - 2021

Darklang year in review - 2021

We just slipped into March, so this is as good a time as any to review what happened in Darklang in 2021. While the bulk of this post is technical details about the rewrite, I have included some...

blog.darklang.com

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Darklang

@darklang

4 years

Interested in how a standard library gets designed? @paulbiggar and Julian just shared how they 61 new functions to the @darklang standard library:

Shortcutting a standard library

Coauthored by Julian Ceipek

medium.com

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Darklang

@darklang

5 years

Functional languages are amazing. But prototyping with them can be a pain. What if it didn’t have to be?

Real problems with functional languages

And their influence on Dark

medium.com

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Darklang

@darklang

4 years

Just sent an update on @darklang to our mailing list

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Darklang

@darklang

4 years

Want to get started with @darklang ? We just released our first package (for @SlackAPI ) and you can try it right now:

Spin up a Slack app in seconds with Dark

Seconds is a bit of an exaggeration, but we’ve made it possible to build a full Slack app in less than an hour. You can jump right in…

medium.com

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Darklang

@darklang

4 years

Good news! We've nearly made it through our waitlist. if you're waiting, you'll have an invite in the next two weeks. Thanks for your patience (and you can still sign up at !)

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Darklang

@darklang

4 years

If you tried out @darklang before Feb or so and gave up due to lack of docs, we've done a lot to improve "trying it out" without a specific project in mind 🥰

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Darklang

@darklang

4 years

We've been writing a changelog since January: here's the latest

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Darklang

@darklang

5 years

We're still working our way through the new accounts. 100 accounts delivered so far this morning.

Ellen Chisa

@ellenchisa

5 years

We emailed 600 people to give @darklang access an hour ago and 150 of them have already replied to my email, resulting in the feelings of:🥳🤩😅😬 (unfortunately in "things that don't scale" I make the accounts personally, and I set the reply-to to be my email instead of beta@).

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Darklang Release 5. Tuples! Contributor settings! Some other stuff!

Darklang release 5

Darklang release 5 contains all the changes from August 2022. This included two major changes: * experimental support for Tuples (that is, fixed length lists of elements of different types, for...

blog.darklang.com

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Darklang

@darklang

7 months

Read the full post here:

An overdue status update on Darklang

We've been working hard at Darklang for the past year, but haven't been very vocal about what we've been up to. Here’s the “Darklang” that’s been live for years: Darklang – the live version, which...

blog.darklang.com

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Trying to position us better. Feedback appreciated

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Darklang Release 9! Finally, short-circuiting boolean operators

Darklang Release 9

Darklang Release 9 contains all the changes from December 2022. You can read more about the changes listed below in the Changelog, and check out our discussion and next month's planning on Youtube....

blog.darklang.com

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Darklang

@darklang

5 years

A little behind the scenes:

Paul Biggar 🇵🇸🇮🇪

@paulbiggar

5 years

We dropped our cloud costs by 61% in 2 hours by the novel strategy of looking at the bill and turning off things we weren't using

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Lots of great responses here, QTing any that relate to @darklang below

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Darklang

@darklang

4 years

Improvements to Dark from last week: Includes a sample app when you get a new account to make it easier to learn 📝 and math functionality in the stdlib (feature request from @kberridge ).

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Darklang

@darklang

3 years

This is a great intro to what Dark can do and how to use it - take a read if you haven't had a chance to sample us yet

egghead.io

@eggheadio

3 years

Write serverless backends with @darklang @danieljcafonso 's article shows how you set up backends for your side projects with @darklang

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Darklang Release 2

I'm pleased to announce Darklang Release 2. Release 2 is the first of a new versioning scheme we announced recently. We're doing a "Release" every month, which is just a set of release notes discus...

blog.darklang.com

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Thanks to @StachuDotNet for a Herculean effort to get it over the line!

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Darklang

@darklang

4 years

We now have a YouTube account we'll be using for our walkthroughs: (Subscribe to find our when they're happening!)

darklang

Official content from the team behind Darklang. Demos: quick, rehearsed examples of how to build specific items in Darklang. Walkthroughs: live, longer-form demos with Q&A from the audience. AMA:...

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Darklang

@darklang

3 years

We're restarting @darklang community meetups! This friday we'll be chat about the upcoming roadmap with @paulbiggar and @StachuDotNet .

Darklang Community Meetup

It's 2022, and we're restarting Darklang community meetups! Update: here's the video Original post We've spent all of 2021 [https://github.com/darklang/dark/pulls?q=is%3Apr+closed%3A%3C2022-01-01]...

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Darklang

@darklang

3 years

New post about the Dark backend rewrite:

Changes from the Dark rewrite

IF YOU USE DARK IN PRODUCTION, PLEASE READ THIS POST! We are approaching the end of the Dark backend rewrite (see previous updates: 1, 2, 3), which we are now tracking on GitHub. While there are...

blog.darklang.com

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Darklang

@darklang

4 years

String length in programming languages is surprisingly complex, and could mean number of bytes, unicode code points, etc. Intuitively though, it means visible characters on screen, aka "extended grapheme clusters". So that's what @darklang uses (same as @SwiftLang )

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Released Tablecloth v0.0.8 for @OCamlLang and @rescriptlang . Also discussing future plans to support #fsharp and other languages

New version of Tablecloth

We've released version 0.0.8 of Tablecloth, an ergonomic, cross-platform standard library to allow you share code between OCaml and Rescript. This version has dozens of new functions, which you can...

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Darklang Release 6 The one in which we finally support negative numbers. And lots of lovely small changes too!

Darklang Release 6

Darklang release 6 contains all the changes from September 2022. Finally, we have support for negative numbers! To try them out, well, just like type the minus sign I guess. We also now show why...

blog.darklang.com

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Darklang

@darklang

3 years

Try the newly updated @darklang editor. Among other things, it loads much much much faster

Paul Biggar 🇵🇸🇮🇪

@paulbiggar

3 years

Last night I enabled the newly rewritten @darklang backend for 100% of editor sessions, after 16 months of work Feeling more relief than joy 😅

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Darklang Release 4 -

Darklang release 4

Darklang Release 4 contains the changes from July 2022. Most of the changes this month were behind the scenes, aiming at releasing new type system, language, and editor features over the next few...

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Darklang

@darklang

5 years

If you received a"you're in!" email for @darklang last week, you should now have an account. If for any reason it hasn't appeared, email: beta @darklang .com.

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Darklang

@darklang

4 years

Dark was on @changelog this week! Listen to @paulbiggar thoughts about it here:

Darklang Diaries with Paul Biggar (Changelog Interviews #430)

This week Jerod is joined by Paul Biggar the creator of Dark, a new way to build serverless backends. Paul shares all the details about this all-in-one language, editor, and infrastructure, why he...

changelog.com

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Blog post to follow today or tomorrow

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Darklang

@darklang

4 years

We're doing a demo of using @SlackAPI with @darklang starting in 13 minutes! Join us here: (No beta invite yet? If you join, we'll get you one).

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Just switched over all "custom domains" to the new backend. Looking good so far

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Darklang

@darklang

4 years

A lovely writeup from @peterHilton on his first look at us:

First look: Dark

A new back-end language and #nobuild web-based development environment

hilton.org.uk

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Darklang

@darklang

7 months

Separately, I've also posted on my personal blog:

I'm really excited about Darklang

I've been working on Darklang for a bit over 2 years, and I'm really excited about it. I'm posting this along with a status update that I wrote for the Darklang blog. It's probably best to read that...

stachu.net

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Looking for some volunteers to switch over to the new backend!

Try out the new Darklang backend

We're completing our migration to the new backend, which we've previously discussed a [https://blog.darklang.com/darklang-year-in-review-2021/] few [https://blog.darklang.com/hows-the-dark-rewrite-...

blog.darklang.com

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Darklang

@darklang

3 years

Video from our latest community meetup video is now up (with captions). @paulbiggar and @StachuDotNet discuss the progress of the current project and the roadmap for the next while

Darklang community meetup - Feb 2022

Paul Biggar and Stachu Korick discuss the Darklang backend rewrite in F#, the roadmap for Darklang in the future, and how contributors can get involved.(Capt...

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Darklang

@darklang

4 years

More details on the surprising challenge of string length is here:

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Darklang

@darklang

6 years

Interested in making it way easier to build a backend? We're hiring:

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Paul Biggar 🇵🇸🇮🇪

@paulbiggar

2 years

How will AI change programming? To start with, we may see languages that are AI-first, designed for the AI not for humans.

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Black Friday sale: @darklang is 100% off. Completely free! Sign up at for the full discount

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Which Mastodon instance should we join?

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Darklang

@darklang

4 years

Excited for @summit_work to be running entirely on @darklang ! Summit allows asynchronous standup built on top of slack and teams.

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Some recent (small!) structured editor improvements 🧵

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

. @darklang is now fully using the new backend for all HTTP traffic

Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Requests to the old backend and the new backend

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

@jreijn That's us switching from the old backend in OCaml to the new one in F#

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

64-bit ints, better errors and docstrings, faster loading, more functions in the client, new versions of some functions, and also removed all the rust and golang from our codebase! Full changelog is here:

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Requests to the old backend and the new backend

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

We're streaming our Release 9 discussion and planning for the next month

actuallydarklang - Twitch

Darklang - a programming language, editor, and cloud designed to be the fastest way to build cloud applications - https://darklang.com

www.twitch.tv

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Darklang

@darklang

1 year

We're hosting a weekly chat in our discord, where the team and contributors discuss what experiments they're working on. If you're interested, please come along

Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games

Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.

discord.com

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Darklang

@darklang

1 year

This is starting now

Darklang

@darklang

1 year

We're hosting a weekly chat in our discord, where the team and contributors discuss what experiments they're working on. If you're interested, please come along

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Darklang

@darklang

3 years

Starting now!

Darklang

@darklang

3 years

We're restarting @darklang community meetups! This friday we'll be chat about the upcoming roadmap with @paulbiggar and @StachuDotNet .

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Darklang

@darklang

5 years

@theshalvah we are into it, but some limitations were needed to be able to do the interesting things that come from connecting lang + infra. it's still a private beta and more is coming (1/n)

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Yes! Parse errors wouldn't exist without a parser. Can't do @darklang 's "deployless" with text. Structured editing ftw!

💤🌵🤖funky little contraption

@boring_cactus

2 years

@iximeow plain text source code is holding us back.

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Darklang release schedule

I remember when I started at Mozilla, and I first got fully sold on continuous delivery. Mozilla had just released Firefox 4, a long and grueling change where some important CSS features had been...

blog.darklang.com

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Darklang

@darklang

4 years

Hanging out on Twitter? There's still time to join and ask @paulbiggar about standard libraries, operations, and anything else:

RSVP - AMA with Dark CTO Paul Biggar

Thanks for RSVPing to our AMA with Dark CTO Paul Biggar! The Zoom link for the call will be shown once you submit your email. The AMA will be at 7am PST/10am EST/3pm BST on Friday, May 8th.

docs.google.com

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Darklang

@darklang

3 years

Anyone want to help write about Dark?

Paul Biggar 🇵🇸🇮🇪

@paulbiggar

3 years

I'm looking to hire a contract writer/editor to help me get more blog posts out. Would suit a junior engineer who used to be a writer, or who fancies themselves as a writer maybe. DMs are open, would appreciate RTs

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

sum types/enums will be the core of @darklang 's type system

Rick

@rickasaurus

2 years

It’s a crime that there are “modern” typed languages without sum/union types at this point.

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Darklang

@darklang

4 years

@BrettRowberry @shanselman Here's the "why":

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

OK, we don't like "inventing", or "better". Maybe suggestions are in order. My goals are: - emphasize the work-in-progress nature (set expectations, attract right users) - focus on community participation - i guess still be exciting or something

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

How we're building @darklang going forward: Building Dark in Dark

Building Dark in Dark

For years, we've talked about building Dark in Dark. In fact, one of the most common questions we've had about Dark is why isn't it built in Dark? When you are talking about building a language in...

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

HTTP-based interop for @darklang but same vibe

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Yes on principle! Also, we're planning on adding a configurable (per-user!) indentation setting to @darklang soon

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Allow deleting to remove wrapping expressions PR:

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Darklang

@darklang

3 years

actuallydarklang - Twitch

Darklang - a programming language, editor, and cloud designed to be the fastest way to build cloud applications - https://darklang.com

www.twitch.tv

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Darklang

@darklang

3 years

PS we have a twitch now:

actuallydarklang - Twitch

Darklang - a programming language, editor, and cloud designed to be the fastest way to build cloud applications - https://darklang.com

www.twitch.tv

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Late to publish, but here's Darklang releases 7 and 8

Darklang Releases 7 and 8

tl;dr Release notes [7] [8] and release discussion Darklang Release 7 contains all the changes from October 2022, and Release 8 contains all the changes from November 2022. Writing these changelogs...

blog.darklang.com

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Darklang

@darklang

4 years

@jimboolean ah yeah, joins will be slow and deletes do not cascade (sample of joining: ) db::query_v4 will be the most performant for SQL-like queries, though doesn't support all functions yet.

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@darklang

4 years

@ericlewis That used to be the only way to do it! (Was hard to discover, hence |>). That's also the best way to select a specific piece to pipe.

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@darklang

2 years

Paul Biggar 🇵🇸🇮🇪

@paulbiggar

2 years

Like an aging rock star making a final stab at glory, I'm delighted to announce that Darklang is going all in on AI/GPT.

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Tried to get arbitrary precision into the @darklang rewrite but it had some issues. It's coming back for sure though

@[email protected]

@ma_vollmer

2 years

@iximeow Exact numbers and arbitrary precision arithmetic should be the default, only exposing machine ints/floats when programmers specifically request them. As it is, ordinary programmers end up using floats a lot when they don't need to and don't know what they're getting into.

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Darklang

@darklang

5 years

@mattsiegel @mrxinu we'll look out for you in :)

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

We are doing some important maintenance work on our database tomorrow (Tuesday), sometime between 10am-4pm EST. Expected downtime is 3 hrs, affecting all Darklang services. We'll post as it happens.

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Darklang

@darklang

4 years

Tomorrow, @paulbiggar will be answering questions about these additions (or anything else). RSVP here:

RSVP - AMA with Dark CTO Paul Biggar

Thanks for RSVPing to our AMA with Dark CTO Paul Biggar! The Zoom link for the call will be shown once you submit your email. The AMA will be at 7am PST/10am EST/3pm BST on Friday, May 8th.

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Darklang

@darklang

4 years

@jimboolean We use postgres behind the scenes for the Dark datastores. The datastores themselves should be thought of a persistent key/value store or hashmap, though. Are you curious about something specific you want to store?

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

We now have a status page: @darklangstatus and

Darklang status

Welcome to Darklang status page for real-time and historical data on system performance.

status.darklang.com

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

@mogarick Thanks! Got this fixed about half an hour ago, appreciate you letting us know!

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Darklang

@darklang

5 years

@ConfigCat @s0enke you can sign up for beta access as we open at the bottom, but you can also email ellen @darklang .com if you have something specific in mind!

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

. @darklang has an interactive production environment and doesn't need either batch compilers or language servers

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

@ManasMarthi There's no pricing page at the moment. I'll try to put one up later today. It’s free and will continue to be for small apps. No idea for bigger apps but paying for usage. Likely a membership fee for “private apps” once we create public ones

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Darklang

@darklang

2 years

Good question about how we do migrations, thanks @devtoolsfm