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First Dark contributor meetup

First Dark contributor meetup

On Friday we had our first contributor meetup. Thirteen folks showed up to a zoom call to discuss how to contribute to Dark. Obviously, the point of the conversation was to get to know each other. We're all hanging out in the #contributors [https://darklang.com/slack-invite] channel, but the

Dark devlog #3: onboarding

Dark devlog #3: onboarding

An annoying thing about coding is that some days you're on fire, producing masterpieces, knocking down obstacle after obstacle. And some weeks, you're trapped figuring out bugs that ultimately come down to having a semi-colon out of place. Most of the time for me, the difference between the two is

Dark devlog #2: what next?

Dark devlog #2: what next?

After spending the last week on some extremely urgent things on my plate (helping the team get jobs, moving, infra stability, costs, and legal and transition work), I have time to get back to the product. There's still not a clear sense of what to work on next. The positioning

Dark devlog #1: fresh start

Dark devlog #1: fresh start

So right now Dark is made up of 100,000 lines of code, a hosted service with 6000 users, a 1600 member Slack community, 39 people who have contributed or intend to contribute to our repo, and 500ish "real" projects. And—as of recently—just me to build it. This

Dark Residency

We’re opening up for a couple more alpha users in our residency (so far, we’ve had two people build their business on it through a similar program, see below¹). Dark lets you write a backend really easily, and your infrastructure is set up as soon as you write