darklang<p><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/introductions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introductions</span></a></p><p>Hey folks!</p><p>Darklang is a <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/ProgrammingLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProgrammingLanguage</span></a>, editor, and <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/PaaS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaaS</span></a>, developed in public on <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/GitHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GitHub</span></a>. </p><p>It started in 2017 and has had a tumultuous time, but is still being actively worked on by a small team led by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@paulbiggar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>paulbiggar</span></a></span>.</p><p>Darklang's goal is to make it 100x easier to build <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/backend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>backend</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/services" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>services</span></a>. It's a <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/functional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>functional</span></a> programming language, with some novel ideas, such as <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/TraceDrivenDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TraceDrivenDevelopment</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/deployless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deployless</span></a>.</p><p>1/🧵</p>