Software Development - Darklang

Software Development

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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 [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NFiuF2QVkJqaKunY-OhZMtB7Ns8IuWv6RY8DsBxlCfU/edit#gid=0] 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

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]

Compiling Dark to SQL

Compiling Dark to SQL

How do we make programs in Dark fast, while keeping complexity for developers really low? We recently shipped a new Dark feature that compiles Dark code to SQL. This post goes into the nitty gritty details of how and why we built it. First, let’s see it in action:

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

Dark Announces $3.5M in Seed Financing

Today we’re announcing that Dark has raised $3.5M in seed funding. We actually raised our funding back in 2017, and have been quietly building Dark for the last two years. Our team has developed a holistic programming language, editor, and infrastructure. You write in the Dark language, using