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> offset the deploying mechanism and control (probably to varying degrees) to a third party that’s dependent on another third party

This sounds exactly like working inside any big company, and all that pre-canned infrastructure is a huge benefit to any project

It will be interesting to see what they've built in the cold light of day, and whether it delivers. I'm apparently not nearly as pessimistic as others on this thread

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Pre-canned infrastructure is generally fine, this requires you use their programming language and their text editor. The article and website make no mention of if your code is stored in version control you can mirror, or if there are any plans to open source it (it appears to be a complete black box, which is fitting for a product called Dark). You also rely on their infrastructure, so it truly is putting all your eggs in the basket of a single startup.

Any time something is tauted as magic, or there’s an example that is ridiculously simple to deploy, anything beyond that is impossible.

I guess I’n with the pessimistic people. I just cannot see it ending well.

For small things you don’t want to think about or tiny/solo teams, I could see a use case for this. But the product has to be really, __really__, fantastic for bigger groups to consider the control trade off.

I’m not bashing on the product, I’m heavily apprehensive of the model for the situations I’m involved in. I can say with certainty it’d never make its way into my current place of employment for several reasons.

The game is never to target the big teams. But make the development leaner for coming generation and smaller teams that they basically own the complete idea. This dependency play is what Google always does. Create the infrastructure, let others do the hardwork. Though I am skeptical too of the efficiency of the tradeoffs.

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