Goals of Dark v2 - Dark v2 roadmap
Integrated tooling: by integrating the editor, programming language and infrastructure, reducing a huge amount of surface area that can cause mistakes or take significant coding time.
Currently, we get 10 user signups a day, and on average, 0 of them stick. We do have developers who love Dark, but not enough.
The specific problem is that developers trying Dark today must trade one set of accidental complexity for another. While they get the advantages of Dark and they typically resonate with them, they also lose the advantages they have in most alternatives:
developers need access to a large library of functions/modules/packages to access 3rd party services, such as Stripe, Twilio, Slack, etc -- this sort of thing is trivial in almost all other languages
developers need to be able to trivially set up a user account system for their users (such as what they can accomplish using Firebase, Rails, Django, etc)
