It gets confused, between what is concatenated and what is the next param

[pbiggar]

A user says:

Ok, here are some thoughts / concerns with Dark.

I like some of the language ideas, I have developed in many languages and personally find JavaScript a lot of fun to use, probably the most fun for projects of any language as I can do everything in one language, however from a tracing point of view it is limited. I like the syntactical completeness and the lack of nulls and variants of unknown that JS has.

In our environment at work we run a sprint based ci-cd pipeline with several environments, continuous build, nightly, staged, live etc. I like the rapid build of Dark into a working solution and the inline execution, which make debugging quite nice. I would be interested to know more about your thoughts on how it fits in to a more production based cycle. Further to this point, as data changes shape in the database, how are collections migrated/upgraded to contain new properties / remove legacy etc. Rails had the up and down features that worked well in my mind for this.

I am not a huge fan of the IDE, personally I am happiest with a skinny IDE ( VSCode / Sublime / Atom ) and a tree view. Often I find I am fighting the IDE more than I want especially “when” ++ “bolting” ++ “strings” together and it gets confused, between what is concatenated and what is the next param. I would also like to comment my code, which I have not figured out how to do. I would also like to version control my code, which I am not certain if this will be supported via the IDE or via Git, but text comparison of changes would be very helpful, especially to identify changes in functionality over time.

I like the advantages that coupling the Code and the Infrastructure together bring from a rapid development cycle, but architect side of me has concerns putting all my eggs in one basket. If I develop in Dark language, what are my hosting options? can I host with a different provider? where is the data hosted? what is the security? Concerns like this would prevent me moving to the platform, for example Node, JavaScript & Mongo can be hosted in AWS, in a specific region to match my customers etc.

Finally, here is a little example that I put together. When Dark works, it works well. As it is online there are few / no barriers to entry, whereas languages like Rust have higher barriers, knowledge of Cargo and lots of reading just to do a Hello World. It can be a little tricky to build with at points. But the net result was quite a small, focused function for creating a JsonWebToken auth packet.

Thank you for the opportunity to give Dark ago in Beta, I am looking forward to seeing how it develops.