https://blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-sleep/
Overall I would stick to a normal language like Python over what this project is. It’s too ambitious for one person and it has all this other hair on it.
"At this point, the Darklang team is composed of Paul (the founder), myself (Stachu), and Feriel. As of the start of the year, Paul has stepped away to focus on Tech for Palestine. While focused on TFP, he continues to act as an advisor for Darklang as much as he has the capacity for."
These violent warriors challenging status quo and established norms: Only if they were obedient decent appropriate conformists, my world would be so much nicer.
Nah, it isn't. The same way it isn't strange that Google and Microsoft CEOs repeatedly visit Israel and praise its occupying forces for its "innovations" and "resilience" due to the "unique challenges" their neighbors pose (pay no attention to the oppression), making the desert bloom (pay no attention to the graveyards), providing them with opportunities to invest in the Startup Nation. If not, how many times have you felt "less likely to embrace" software from these companies?
> makes me less likely to embrace
Completely at ease with actual genocidal rhetoric on Israeli tech twitter (see tweets by PHP's creator Zeev Suraski or by OpenAI's Tal Broda, for example), but a banner for freedom... that's a step too far.
Astonishing how things nauseatingly repulsive don't offend but seemingly innocuous things do. Says a lot.