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The Opa Language for Web Application Development
http://opalang.org
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API Site is down #158

Closed twopoint718 closed 9 years ago

twopoint718 commented 10 years ago

The following link is broken on the main page: http://doc.opalang.org/api

gogson commented 9 years ago

Yeah it's down since a few months now...you are encouraged to look directly in the Opa source code ;)

traanf commented 9 years ago

does MLState still develop Opa framework? I have not seen they blogged anything for 2014. I really love the language.

gogson commented 9 years ago

I learned the language while I was working in a company, and now I really love it too ! But the project seems to be paused !

It seems that the MLState team is working on another project, built with Opa. http://www.mlstate.com

So let's hope it's not dead afterall ;)

twopoint718 commented 9 years ago

Good to know (maybe). I was just a little worried that the documentation link on the front page had gone missing! That seems like a bad sign.

I'm writing a book about next-gen web frameworks and I'm starting to get a small case of cold feet about including a chapter on Opa. I'd rather know now if the language turns out to be defunct.

hbbio commented 9 years ago

Indeed, Opa is not dead at all, and we keep contributing (and accepting contributions, which we get) to the open source project.

Turns out we pivoted as a company from software developer tools to developing our own product(s) with Opa. Therefore, we have very few resources to commit to the open source community -- and when our servers (including backup) disappeared after a billing issue, we didn't find time to bring it back.

Internally, we are using the source (which contains the documentation in proper comments) and find it even faster to lookup. We usually open the lib/stdlib directory in Sublime Text and use the lookup functions.

If someone wants to contribute and for instance generate docsets for Opa, we'd love to accept it :) Chris, it's up to you, but of course you're welcome to cover Opa. We use it daily, and find (we're biased of course) that it's an awesome development environment: Code is extremely concise, yet never constrained like with opinionated frameworks.

twopoint718 commented 9 years ago

I'm glad to hear that. I love the language and it fits right smack in the center of the thesis of my book! It feels like Opa is a great way to lure JavaScript developers into something more type safe.

izderadicka commented 9 years ago

Docs site is still not on - unfortunatelly this give feeling that opa is abandoned - that's pitty because I like concepts of the framework. There are some other hints which might make me cautious about using it for some project - like it does not compile under OCaml 4.02, deb package is missing ( front page is directing me to source install), vagrant box link is not working ...

hbbio commented 9 years ago

Closing, as there should be no public link anymore. We welcome any contribution towards better documentation!