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Front End Development

A collection of 2 posts

What is Dark?

Dark is a holistic programming language, structured editor, and infrastructure, for building backend web services. It’s aimed at frontend, backend, and mobile engineers. Our goal is to make coding 100x easier, which we believe will allow a billion people to build software. This is a huge challenge, that requires

Philip2: an Elm-to-ReasonML compiler

Philip2: an Elm-to-ReasonML compiler

In November, Dark [https://darklang.com/] made a decision to move off of Elm [https://elm-lang.org/], and port our frontend to Bucklescript [https://bucklescript.github.io/] (aka OCaml, dba ReasonML). Being over 10kLOC, and having active development, it would have been error prone and difficult to port it manually.