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FWIW we also store ASTs, not text. We offer many of the same benefits. Some day (soon?) I'll write up a full comparison between the two, because it seems a common ask.

They were referring to Docker, after some claims regarding some corporate activity (forget details)

We (darklang) are fully remote! One person in Vermont, one in Algeria. :)

ah cool!

The goal isn't lock-in.

Do you actually _like_ git? Or is it just good enough to get by?

Do you like having to git pull and git push and set up remotes and such? Or would something more integrated into your language and team and setup be nicer?

I think git is great, and better than many other options, but I don't think it's optimal. And it's not integrated with a larger system optimally.

Besides, while you do edit Darklang code in a text editor, it's not (WIP[1]) saved just in text files on disk. When you save, the code is automatically synced, available to you (and your team) immediately (with feature flagging and other tools to help make sure you don't "merge" incomplete/bad/broken stuff).

I absolutely understand the hesitancy, and concerns about vendor lock-in. We're doing our best to not lock users in, including working towards nice ways to "export" all of your dark stuff to another language/etc, using AI, if you so choose to bail.

[1] with minor extension, a text editor may work upon 'virtual' text files / workspaces, and when you save those, cool things happens. (yes, this is a bit hand-wavey, but we're just a few folks at this point and doing our best to make it less hand-wavey, soon :) )

good to know! I probably will hold out until I just port everythin to dark, but good to hear of yet another thing that gitlab does better than github.

Yeah -- I haven't found a super-simple way of hosting for free, on my domain, with browsers not complaining about it being served over http. Maybe that's me missing some big simple option, but Darklang-classic's setup for hosting a simple website on a personal domain was _nice_ and I'm looking forward to getting that again with -next.

<3. So often, I wish I could still talk to him, about anything, incl Dark. I wish you the best in recovering from and processing your mother's passing - it's been over five years now since my dad's death. It's not easy, but it gets easier.

Maybe it's OK that software / the industry means less. Maybe death just puts things into perspective? At least, that feels like a component to me. Maybe I should have spent less time coding and more time calling him.