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My interest is piqued, it could be a killer tool... but I'm still not sure what the status of this project is, even after spending 15 minutes perusing documentation etc. Can I really use it in anger? Is there a tutorial that explains how the current (not 'classic') stuff works? Is there an example of a non-trivial web-app built in Darklang in the real-world, ideally with source available? Or is it all too early-days for that stuff?

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I'll take the fact that stachudotnet has interacted with other posts but ignored this as a resounding "it's not ready". :-(

Hi there! Sorry, I've been busy. I only saw that someone posted this post to HN about an hour ago, and I've been scrambling a bit to catch up.

I'd say that Darklang-classic is ready enough for small projects, esp any web APIs. I've used it successfully for a good chunk of projects. That said, it's an imperfect solution, as outlined by the post on the main Darklang blog.

Darklang-next definitely isn't ready yet. I think I'll be porting the vast majority of _my_ code to Darklang by the end of the year, if not months earlier, but you know, software estimates. I'll do my best to keep in touch writing more posts with status updates.

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