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> Our target audience is developers building backends. Why wouldn't developers building back-ends just continue building back-ends in their preferred language
by eternalny1 7y ago
> Our target audience is developers building backends.
Why wouldn't developers building back-ends just continue building back-ends in their preferred language and environments?
I type this as I'm tabbed out of Visual Studio creating API back-end in C# .Net Core right now. It's easy.
With this I'd have to 1) Learn a new language 2) Learn a new GUI interface for that language 3) Lock myself in
- cuddlecake 7y ago... buuuuut you don't have to learn how to: 1) deploy your code 2) deploy your datastore 3) manage your datastore 4) shard your datastore 5) deploy your infrastructur3 Among many other things. The value of Dark Lang lies not just in the programming language and the IDE, but in the holistic experience for backend development it provides, since _all_ of the overhead required to actually move to production and make new releases completely vanishes. Reducing the entire idea of darklang to "vendor lock in, lol naw" is missing the point, but also kind of nailing it. By reducing options, you gain the freedom to focus on the problem you set out to solve in the first place. Of course, it's not a silver bullet right now, but it's an interesting bullet nonetheless.
- eternalny1 7y ago> .. buuuuut you don't have to learn how to: 1) deploy your code 2) deploy your datastore 3) manage your datastore 4) shard your datastore 5) deploy your infrastructur3 Or you can just get a cheap host and throw a table into a SQLite database (a file) and use JavaScript. I'm probably not the target audience.