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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. Back in 2017, when I was considering the language and platform to use for Dark, OCaml was extremely compelling:

• it’s a high-level language…

Dark v2 Roadmap

tl;dr there’s a Dark v2 roadmap now.

FizzBoom benchmark (call for participation)

I’ve been working recently on a benchmark, to try and see how to get the most…

Adventures in Async

I was very recently the holder of three opinions:

• Rust is magic fairy dust that can fix all my…

How to add a new feature to Dark

On Saturday, we had our third contributor meetup, this one was organized by Shahriyar Nasir (thanks…

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…

Directions and roadmaps

There was a wonderful post just now that I saw on HN as I was procrastinating writing this post. It was by Tim Bray…

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…