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 discussing what we shipped over the last month. Release 2 contains all the work we've released

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, we said "ugh, let's hack this and we can fix it when

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 ready but unshipped for over 18 months before Firefox 4 actually got out the door, slowing

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-going/] times. Progress is going well, and all https://darklang.com requests (including all editor usage) have been served by the new backend for the last few

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 company details at the bottom too. Enjoy! For context, Darklang is an

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] doing a rewrite of Darklang's backend. We're nearly done, and now it's time to start thinking about the future.

and should it be open source? I'm taking a break from reporting on the progress of Darklang [https://darklang.com] (it's slow but steady [https://github.com/darklang/dark/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed]) to write up some thoughts on an interesting question. This weekend on Twitter, Leandro Ostera

I recently went through an optimization exercise. As part of Darklang [http://darklang.com]'s rewrite [https://blog.darklang.com/hows-the-dark-rewrite-going/] in F# [https://blog.darklang.com/new-backend-fsharp/], I needed to make sure that my new code was as fast as the old code - or at least, not horrendously

Welcome again HN! Dark [https://darklang.com] is a programming language, structured editor, and infrastructure—all in one—whose goal is to make it 100x easier to build backend services. Check out the website [https://darklang.com/], our What is Dark [https://blog.darklang.com/what-is-dark/] post, and How Dark

Welcome HN! Dark is a programming language, structured editor, and infrastructure—all in one—whose goal is to make it 100x easier to build backend services. Check out the website [https://darklang.com], our What is Dark [https://blog.darklang.com/what-is-dark/] post, and How Dark deploys in 50ms [https:

Part of a 3 part series. Followups on F# [https://blog.darklang.com/new-backend-fsharp/], Rust [https://blog.darklang.com/why-dark-didnt-choose-rust/] I built the first demo of Dark in Python, in about two weeks. A few months later when I started productizing it, I rebuilt it in OCaml. Back in 2017,

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 lacks a good user account/authentication story While these are the major issues,

On Saturday, we had our third contributor meetup, this one was organized by Shahriyar Nasir [https://twitter.com/ShahriyarNasir] (thanks Shah!). This time, we did mob coding to add a Tuple type to Dark, and we recorded the whole thing. A tuple looks like this: let x = (somevar, "a string"

There was a wonderful post just now that I saw on HN as I was procrastinating writing this post. It was by Tim Bray [https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/08/09/Service-Fabric-News], and it covered my favorite topic, which is just how batshit cloud services have gotten,