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Benchmark performance results. See data tables belo

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Benchmarking F#6 Tasks

A lot of new performance-related stuff landed in the F# world recently. As well as the release of .NET 6, F# 6 was recently released, with built-in, highly-optimized "Resumable Code" Tasks. So let's measure it.

Changes from the Dark rewrite

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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 still many tasks to be done, we're making progress and the end is in sight.

Adventures in Async

Architecture Featured

Adventures in Async

I was very recently the holder of three opinions: * Rust is magic fairy dust that can fix all my problems * Async is magic fairy dust that can fix all my problems * GraphQL is magic fairy dust that can fix all my problems Unsurprisingly, all of these appear to be wrong.

Shortcutting a standard library

Backend Development

Shortcutting a standard library

Coauthored by Julian Ceipek [https://jceipek.com/] We recently decided to significantly expand Dark [https://darklang.com/]’s standard library. While our standard library has a lot of functionality for the Dark “framework”, including HTTP, worker/queue, and datastore functions [https://medium.com/darklang/compiling-dark-to-sql-bb8918d1acdd], we were a little short

Spin up a Slack app in seconds with Dark

Software Development

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 [https://darklang.com/signup?05b46f1e-153b-4f6f-9926-b50060a994f3] (limited number of accounts available — if the link has expired, click here [https://darklang.com/beta]

Building an Office Sign-In in Dark

We’ve just released a demo video of Dark [https://darklang.com/]. The demo is building out an office sign in application. You choose who you’re visiting (a host) and sign in with your name. I highly recommend watching the video instead of reading this. But… since the video

Developer Tools

Unveiling Dark

Today we’re unveiling Dark and moving into private beta. Backends today are too complicated to build. Dark is designed to massively reduce that complexity. Dark is a holistic programming language, editor, and infrastructure for building backends. You write in the Dark language, using the Dark editor, and your program