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I've played with some early betas of Dark and I must say being deployless may make a good headline, but there are many more-exciting features. There's visual programming, a concise OCaml-style language, a unique pub-sub mechanism baked right in, and integrated database support. It's a really fresh approach.

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> deployless may make a good headline, but there are many more-exciting features. There's visual programming, a concise OCaml-style language, a unique pub-sub mechanism baked right in, and integrated database support.

So, everything that is currently delivered in the real world by technologies like OutSystems, which have an enterprise customer base, 1-click deploys, and that you can actually try for free.

"Starting at US$6,250/month (Billed Annually)"

No lunch is free, the small plan is a single dev and max 100 users. Which means, once you go have 101 customers you'll have to charge users at minimum 62,5$/mo just to cover expenses.

I'm not saying that's not cheap for what you get, but the "free" constraints are there.

Hi! Let me push back slightly on "visual programming". Dark looks and feels like writing textual code. There are some built-in visualizations, especially around code organization and infrastructure, but it's much more like coding in python in vscode than using Github actions.

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