dark VS wiz

Compare dark vs wiz and see what are their differences.

dark

Darklang main repo, including language, backend, and infra (by darklang)

wiz

The F# web framework designed for clarity and speed (by samueleaton)
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dark wiz
43 2
1,591 38
3.6% -
10.0 0.0
7 days ago about 3 years ago
F# F#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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dark

Posts with mentions or reviews of dark. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-24.
  • WASM_of_OCaml
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jul 2023
    Yes. Darklang was originally in OCaml using js_of_ocaml, and we ported it to F# using Blazor (https://github.com/darklang/dark/tree/main/backend/src/Wasm). It works.

    We found that in dotnet 6, the code was much slower, with long startup times and a much bigger download, than in js_of_ocaml. It also had a lot of issues in running in a Webworker, which wasn't the case for js_of_ocaml.

    In dotnet 7, the webworker issues are better and AOT is easier, so startup is faster. Download sizes are still bad, and it's still slower than js_of_ocaml.

    However, dotnet allows almost any code to run in WASM, which js_of_ocaml had large limitations. This meant a decent chunk of functionality had to be worked around to make separate js vs native targets, which also was a massive pain and took a long time. Dune's virtual targets wasn't ready at the time - I think we were one of the test cases for it.

  • Cloud, Why So Difficult?
    6 projects | /r/programming | 29 May 2023
    First it was probably Dark. They made a lot of noise some years ago, but then I never heard of them again (looking at their current website, looks like they moved on to AI now, obviously).
    6 projects | /r/programming | 29 May 2023
    Specifically Unison and Dark?
  • New open-source programming language for DevOps engineers by the creator of the CDK
    11 projects | /r/devops | 15 Apr 2023
    Reminds me of Darklang. Personally, I don't think vendoring cloud services into a language is going to be beneficial. I'm curious how the language deals with vendor updates. Do I have to upgrade the language then? If so, I see a lot conflicts coming from this. Then it comes down to Javascript or HCL, the HCL bit makes me think that the below statement is not as truthy as it is on the surface:
  • Making Something Waspy: A Review Of Wasp
    6 projects | dev.to | 10 Jan 2023
    I wish I could remember what took me to YCombinator's website on the 10th of October, 2022. That was when I first heard about Wasp and another language called DarkLang. After I learned about Wasp, I was intrigued and curious to know how it works, which led me to join the discord server the next day.
  • Using Rust at a Startup: A Cautionary Tale
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Nov 2022
    Some languages that try to integrate an HTTP server and a database:

    Ur/Web: http://impredicative.com/ur/

    Dark (Darklang): https://darklang.com/

  • The Current State of Infrastructure From Code
    6 projects | dev.to | 16 Nov 2022
    There are others in this space I did not assess like Encore, Shuttle, Modal, and Dark. These were not assessed for the sake of time. If you're interested in IfC, I encourage you to take a look at these others.
  • Finally, we have support for negative numbers!
    2 projects | /r/programmingcirclejerk | 4 Nov 2022
    Oh, finally! I was waiting to build my serverless CRUD webapp in Dark (OCaml + JavaScript and Fsharp?) until they had support for returning negative numbers on a GET request!
  • “Zoom Out”: The missing feature of IDEs
    5 projects | /r/programming | 29 Sep 2022
    The author should check out Dark Lang: https://darklang.com/
  • Awesome list of VCs investing in commercial open-source startups
    6 projects | /r/opensource | 14 Sep 2022
    Darklang - Main project license does not appear to be Open Source, very limited rights provided.

wiz

Posts with mentions or reviews of wiz. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-05.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dark and wiz you can also consider the following projects:

nvim-ts-rainbow - Rainbow parentheses for neovim using tree-sitter. Use https://sr.ht/~p00f/nvim-ts-rainbow instead

Bracket-Pair-Colorizer-2 - Bracket Colorizer Extension for VSCode

unison - A friendly programming language from the future

liquibase - Main Liquibase Source

terraform-cdk - Define infrastructure resources using programming constructs and provision them using HashiCorp Terraform

nanos - A kernel designed to run one and only one application in a virtualized environment

enso - Hybrid visual and textual functional programming.

vscode-python - Python extension for Visual Studio Code

diffsitter - A tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs

Pulumi - Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language. Build infrastructure intuitively on any cloud using familiar languages 🚀

Falco - A toolkit for building fast and functional-first web applications using F#.

rrweb - record and replay the web