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I went to their homepage to find this blurb: We’re creating a new programming language, tightly integrated with an editor, compiler and PaaS, to allow engineer

I went to their homepage to find this blurb: We’re creating a new programming language, tightly integrated with an editor, compiler and PaaS, to allow engineers to build distributed applications using high-level primitives. We abstract away individual machines and low-level distributed systems code to: * Generate and run scalable infrastructure for you. * Use APIs as easily as if they were functions. * Remove the deployment step entirely. Quite ambitious I must say

rapsey 9y ago
* forever bind you to our services and charge you any amount of money because you have no choice but to pay. If you fail we will just take your business.
- lossolo 9y ago
  This. They are paying you for locking your startup into their platform and then they will get their money back and a lot more.
- sjm-lbm 9y ago
  Eh, even if what they are promising is only economically viable as a proof of concept, it's probabally still better than the "overengineer a system that nobody ever actually uses" situation that's pretty much the norm now.
  - rapsey 9y ago
    No I think locking yourself into financial servitude to some entity is just about the dumbest thing you can do. If you fail you wasted time getting experience not applicable elsewhere, if you succeed they will bleed you dry.
    - CamTin 9y ago
      If you succeed, you have some blood in you, and can work on V2 architecture on some other cloud or in your own cage at a DC. This seems like a good bargain for a business that is validating whether they can make money at all, especially a VC-backed startup that is fine with burning cash to prove a concept. Seems like something in-between totally-infinitely-scalable-and-portable-bulletproof-infra and "fake it with spreadsheets and manual work".
      - rapsey 9y ago
        Or they bleed you so much you don't have the resources to attempt a rewrite.
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jlarocco 9y ago
Sounds like they're developing Common Lisp, Emacs, and Slime.
- pbiggar 9y ago
  Throw in Heroku and Firebase and we're nearly there :)
notfromhere 9y ago
So basically mathematica/wolfram language?

rapsey 9y ago

* forever bind you to our services and charge you any amount of money because you have no choice but to pay. If you fail we will just take your business.

lossolo 9y ago
This. They are paying you for locking your startup into their platform and then they will get their money back and a lot more.
sjm-lbm 9y ago
Eh, even if what they are promising is only economically viable as a proof of concept, it's probabally still better than the "overengineer a system that nobody ever actually uses" situation that's pretty much the norm now.
- rapsey 9y ago
  No I think locking yourself into financial servitude to some entity is just about the dumbest thing you can do. If you fail you wasted time getting experience not applicable elsewhere, if you succeed they will bleed you dry.
  - CamTin 9y ago
    If you succeed, you have some blood in you, and can work on V2 architecture on some other cloud or in your own cage at a DC. This seems like a good bargain for a business that is validating whether they can make money at all, especially a VC-backed startup that is fine with burning cash to prove a concept. Seems like something in-between totally-infinitely-scalable-and-portable-bulletproof-infra and "fake it with spreadsheets and manual work".
    - rapsey 9y ago
      Or they bleed you so much you don't have the resources to attempt a rewrite.
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jlarocco 9y ago

Sounds like they're developing Common Lisp, Emacs, and Slime.

pbiggar 9y ago
Throw in Heroku and Firebase and we're nearly there :)

notfromhere 9y ago

So basically mathematica/wolfram language?