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The page for the language is here - https://darklang.com/ https://darklang.com/ but sadly no technical details appear to be publicly available at this time.
by dman 7y ago
The page for the language is here - https://darklang.com/ https://darklang.com/ but sadly no technical details appear to be publicly available at this time.
- ericpauley 7y agoI'm not convinced. The authors cite sources of complexity that are mostly domain-specific artifacts of web development, yet make pretty broad claims about a fundamental advancement in language design. Maybe the authors have some insight about these pain points, but it certainly doesn't seem necessary to create a whole new language to solve them, especially as frameworks such as gRPC have already (at least partially) solved one of these supposed fundamental issues without replacing the base programming language.
- dman 7y agoI am not convinced either. Getting a language off the ground is a 10 year affair, don't think its possible for a funded company to bring up a new language unless they are targeting some niche where full scale programmability is not a requirement.
- pram 7y agoIt might just transpile into something else, doesn’t necessarily need to be completely from scratch. Their documentation is pretty opaque though as others have mentioned so who knows.
- pbiggar 7y agoWe've got some stuff on our blog. See here and the links at the bottom: https://medium.com/darklang/the-design-of-dark-59f5d38e52d2 https://medium.com/darklang/the-design-of-dark-59f5d38e52d2