Wing Cloud, the company behind the Wing Programming Language, has made a groundbreaking development for cloud infrastructure and programming enthusiasts. Winglang has launched out of stealth mode and raised $20 million in seed funding. Prominent venture capital firms including Battery Ventures, Grove Ventures, and StageOne Ventures led the funding round. Secret Chord Ventures, Cerca Partners, and Operator Partners also took part. Some industry leaders, like Amit Agarwal, Armon Dadgar, Benny Schnaider, Zack Kanter, and other angel investors, also support Wing Cloud.
Winglang is a programming language that is open-source. Its main focus is on creating distributed systems, and it fully utilizes cloud infrastructure as a primary component. The Winglang compiler is different from traditional programming languages. It creates a comprehensive package that includes infrastructure-as-code definitions for cloud provisioning engines like Terraform and CloudFormation, as well as optimized Node.js code for various compute platforms such as AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, or edge platforms.
Elad Ben-Israel, CEO and Co-Founder of Wing Cloud, said that they are simplifying the process of building applications on cloud infrastructure by hiding technical complexities. Cloud computing has become very powerful, but customers still have challenges with security, networking, deployment, and operations when developing even simple systems. Wing Cloud simplifies this process, allowing developers to focus on application logic and functionality instead of complex cloud management tasks.
A recent survey conducted by Sentry and SlashData revealed that software engineers frequently face a major challenge: the unclear ownership division between application and infrastructure. Wing Cloud is tackling this challenge directly. The company is launching a private beta of its first commercial product: a visual cloud management solution. It provides developers and operators with a shared, real-time view of an application’s architecture and data flow. This tool improves collaboration and simplifies the development and management of cloud-based applications.
Industry experts and professionals are already buzzing with excitement about Winglang’s potential impact. Eric Riddoch, Senior MLOps Engineer at Benlabs, a leading entertainment AI company, expressed his enthusiasm, stating, “Winglang will be the programming language of the future. My head is spinning with the implications of Pulumi, Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation, and Kubernetes YAML being abstracted away by a compiled cloud-oriented programming language.”
As Wing Cloud makes its grand entrance into the world of cloud infrastructure and distributed systems, all eyes are on this ambitious project, which promises to redefine the way developers approach cloud computing and application development. With its robust funding and the backing of key industry players, Wing Cloud is poised to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of cloud-native programming languages and revolutionizing the world of cloud infrastructure as we know it.
