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Wing Cloud Raises a $20M Seed to Build a Programming Language for the Cloud

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5 points by shaiber 2 years ago · 6 comments

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shaiberOP 2 years ago

Hi, I'm one of the founders of Wing Cloud. I'd love to get feedback on what we're building and answer any question.

  • verdverm 2 years ago

    two questions

    1. Why should users need to learn a bespoke language where an SDK in our primary languages could be better?

    2. Why does your landing page use 100% CPU indefinitely?

    • shaiberOP 2 years ago

      Good questions. 1. You can read about it in this blogpost: https://www.winglang.io/blog/2023/07/18/wing-cloud-launch Specifically this section: https://www.winglang.io/blog/2023/07/18/wing-cloud-launch#wh...

      2. It shouldn't do that.. which page did you visit?

      • verdverm 2 years ago

        1. Always a red flag, we don't really consider any tools which require a bespoke programming language. We prefer the tool developers focus on the problem and not be distracted with the tasks of implementing a language. We also don't want to waste developer cycles on a tool specific language. FWIW, we are moving these kinds of things to Dagger

        2. The homepage

        • verdverm 2 years ago

          To clarify #1, using your terminology.

          Bespoke language for preflight, ok

          Bespoke language for inflight, no thanks, we do not want to develop our applications in a bespoke language and ecosystem. The trade off is too big and risky. It would also be a nightmare to hire and retain talent

          Wing, wasp, and darklang all suffer from these issues.

          • shaiberOP 2 years ago

            Thanks for the feedback.

            I get where you're coming from about a new language for inflight. We will have support for existing languages in the future, through an SDK, although you will not get all the benefits of the Wing compiler this way.

            About #2, we've identified the issue to be the lottie animations. Working on a fix

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