It has great potential. I think the unique integrated web ide, tracing, function level versioning and deployment model are game changing. Anyone not going in this direction with their FaaS products should stop what they are doing and reevaluate.
That said, his motivation for rewriting it is the right call. Dark does not have enough of a standard library for third party integrations (among other issues) or a way to easily contribute them which makes it tough to build in the large.
I’m really rooting for Dark - even with the rough edges it feels like the future and how I want to eventually build software.
Yes. The initial PR was a bit misguided IMHO, and left a big "huh?".
The futureofcoding interviews were much better, what they are doing is really interesting, though I am unconvinced that all the stuff they're doing is actually required to achieve their goals.
For example, they claim that a structured editor is required, but if per-method granularity is good enough, then a normal method browser would work just as well. As far as I can tell.
That said, his motivation for rewriting it is the right call. Dark does not have enough of a standard library for third party integrations (among other issues) or a way to easily contribute them which makes it tough to build in the large.
I’m really rooting for Dark - even with the rough edges it feels like the future and how I want to eventually build software.