Dark

Dark was created in 2017 by Paul Biggar and Ellen Chisa. It aimed to simplify the process of building and deploying web services by integrating coding, deployment, and infrastructure management into a single platform. The goal was to reduce the complexity and overhead associated with traditional development workflows, enabling developers to focus on writing business logic.

Strengths of Dark included its streamlined development and deployment process, reduced operational overhead, and integrated environment. Weaknesses involved limited language features, potential scalability issues, and reliance on a proprietary platform. Competitors included traditional web frameworks like Django and Ruby on Rails, as well as serverless platforms like AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions.

A Dark expert must have skills in functional programming, understanding of web service architecture, proficiency in writing and debugging code within the Dark environment, familiarity with RESTful APIs, and experience with serverless computing concepts. Knowledge of database integration and cloud deployment practices is also essential.