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Paul Biggar

Moved to blog.paulbiggar.com

I plan to start writing more, but the paywall here doesn’t work for me. So I moved my content to https://blog.paulbiggar.com/.

1 min readJan 28, 2023

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We’ve moved to blog.darklang.com

If you’re still following us on Medium, you can follow us instead on the Darklang Blog, or join the mailing list.

1 min readJan 28, 2023

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We’ve moved to blog.darklang.com

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Paul Biggar
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Darklang

Leaving OCaml

I built the first demo of Dark in Python, in about two weeks. A few months later when I started productizing it, I rebuilt it in OCaml…

6 min readNov 2, 2020

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Paul Biggar
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Darklang

Dark v2 Roadmap

tl;dr there’s a Dark v2 roadmap now.

2 min readOct 12, 2020

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Dark v2 Roadmap

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Paul Biggar
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Darklang

FizzBoom benchmark (call for participation)

I’ve been working recently on a benchmark, to try and see how to get the most performance from the Dark backend. I’ve reimplemented the…

4 min readSep 23, 2020

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FizzBoom benchmark (call for participation)

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Paul Biggar
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Darklang

Adventures in Async

I was very recently the holder of three opinions

5 min readSep 17, 2020

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Adventures in Async

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Paul Biggar
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Darklang

How to add a new feature to Dark

On Saturday, we had our third contributor meetup, this one was organized by Shahriyar Nasir (thanks Shah!). This time, we did mob coding…

2 min readSep 1, 2020

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How to add a new feature to Dark

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Paul Biggar
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Darklang

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.

13 min readAug 20, 2020

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First thoughts on Rust vs OCaml

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Paul Biggar
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Darklang

The was a wonderful post just now that I saw on HN as I was procrastinating writing this post.

Which leads me quite nicely into some clarity I’ve gotten over the last few weeks. After reducing the team down to just me, I spent the…

1 min readAug 11, 2020

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The was a wonderful post just now that I saw on HN as I was procrastinating writing this post.

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Paul Biggar
in
Darklang

A fun bug

I’m always interested in stories about Accidental Complexity — when you waste time dealing with the endless layers of tooling that’s…

1 min readAug 4, 2020

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A fun bug

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Paul Biggar

Paul Biggar

Tech entrepreneur, software engineer. Founder of Dark: https://darklang.com. Founder of CircleCI. Lover of chocolate and pastries.

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