Designing dev products, with Ellen Chisa (Boldstart) - S02E09

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In this episode we speak to Ellen Chisa, who was previously CEO of Dark, a programming language startup that allowed you to focus on your backend code and forget about frameworks, deployments, and infrastructure. We discuss whether that is the right way to think about coding, where no code or low code fits into the modern development stack, how developers should think about open source and the challenges of building dev tools versus getting developers to actually use them.

About Ellen Chisa

Ellen Chisa is a founder, angel investor, and engineer. She created Dark, a programming language coupled to its editor and infrastructure. Previously, she was the first employee at Lola, combining the best of technology and people for travel planning. Ellen Chisa is currently a Founder in Residence at Boldstart Ventures.

Things mentioned:

• The Self Provisioning Runtime - Shawn Wang
• Bret Victor
• Chris Granger
• Lambdragon
• Future of Coding
• Steve Krouse
• Dark
• Visual Studio Code
• Azure
• Red Hat
• MongoDB
• Elastic

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Recorded: 2021-10-12.