Functional Programming - Darklang

Functional Programming

A collection of 4 posts

First thoughts on Rust vs OCaml

First thoughts on Rust vs OCaml

I'm about two weeks into Rust now, so this feels like a good time to write a critique, before I get Stockholm Syndrome'd. My main motivation in learning Rust is that I have to maintain some of Dark's Rust code [https://docs.darklang.com/contributing/if-you-dont-know-our-stack]. There was a recent

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

Real problems with functional languages

And their influence on Dark After two decades of coding professionally in a dozen languages, I’ve come to a conclusion about static and dynamic types: * Static types help you ensure that your changes work, especially for changes that span large parts of the program. This leads to long-term productivity

Tablecloth: a new standard library for OCaml & ReasonML

Tablecloth: a new standard library for OCaml & ReasonML

Tablecloth [https://github.com/darklang/tablecloth] is an ergonomic, cross-platform, standard library for use with OCaml and ReasonML, which provides easy-to-use, comprehensive and performant modules, that have the same API on all OCaml / ReasonML / Bucklescript platforms. Tablecloth is not intended to replace your current standard library. Instead, it’s intended