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Dark is an end-to-end system that combines an editor, a custom language and infrastructure to remove accidental complexity; the backend is ~20k lines of OCaml compiled to JS with js_of_ocaml, the frontend is ~30k lines ported from Elm to BuckleScript using Philippe II, and porting ~15k lines takes ~2 weeks plus a month of fixes. The team builds a compatibility layer called tablecloth to unify Belt and Jane Street Core, runs Postgres on Kubernetes, enables deploy live in production, and reports middling frontend happiness and real backend performance and operational pain.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:55Overview
- 4:41What is Dark
- 15:57Tablecloth
- 20:18Comparison of Bucklescript to Elm
- 30:40Future of ReasonML
