workerd

The JavaScript / Wasm runtime that powers Cloudflare Workers (by cloudflare)

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workerd reviews and mentions

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  • Cloudflare acquires PartyKit to allow developers to build real-time multi-user
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Apr 2024
    Standards bodies only standardize things after they've been proven to work. You can't standardize a new idea before offering it to the market. It's hard enough to get just one vendor to experiment with an idea (it literally took me years to convince everyone inside Cloudflare that we should build Durable Objects). Getting N competing vendors to agree on it -- before anything has been proven in the market -- is simply not possible.

    But the Durable Objects API is not complicated and there's nothing stopping competing platforms from building a compatible product if they want. Much of the implementation is open source, even. In fact, if you build an app on DO but decide you don't want to host it on Cloudflare, you can self-host it on workerd:

    https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd

  • Python Cloudflare Workers
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Apr 2024
    In any case, I welcome this initiative with my open hands and look forward all the cool apps that people will now build with this!

    [1] https://pyodide.org/

    [2] https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/blob/main/docs/pyodide...

    [3] https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/pull/1875

  • LLRT: A low-latency JavaScript runtime from AWS
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Feb 2024
    For ref:

    - https://blog.cloudflare.com/workerd-open-source-workers-runt...

    - https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd

  • A list of JavaScript engines, runtimes, interpreters
    23 projects | /r/learnjavascript | 10 Dec 2023
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  • WinterJS
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Oct 2023
    I think this is for people who want to run their own cloudflare workers (sort of) and since nobody wants to run full node for that, they want a small runtime that just executes js/wasm in an isolated way. But I wonder why they don't tell me how I can be sure that this is safe or how it's safe. Surely I can't just trust them and it explicitly mentions that it still has file IO so clearly there is still work I need to do customize the isolation further. But then they don't show any info on that core usecase. But then that's probably because they don't really want you to use this to run it on your own, they are selling you on running things on their edge platform called "Wasmer Edge". So that's probably why this is so light on information.. the motivation isn't to get you to use this yourself, just to use this their hosted edge platform. But then I wonder why I wouldn't just use https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd which is also open source. Surely that is fast enough? If not then it should show some benchmarks?
  • Cloudflare workers is adopting Ada URL parser
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Oct 2023
  • Cap'n Proto 1.0
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jul 2023
    i love how the main reference for workerd can be just one capnp file.

    https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/blob/main/src/workerd/...

    this changed my world how i think about computing on the web.

    if there was just a good enough js library as for lua and you could directly send capnp messages to workerd instead of always going through files. I guess one day i have to relearn c++ and understand how the internals actually work.

  • Cloudflare Workers Introduces Connect() API to Create TCP Sockets
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 May 2023
    A significant chunk of it is open source: https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/
  • JSON with multiline strings
    2 projects | /r/javascript | 19 May 2023
    Some of the configuration files for applications wind up being an entire language unto themselves, e.g., https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/blob/1b5057f2bfcfedf146f6f79ff04e99903d55412b/src/workerd/io/compatibility-date.capnp
  • Am I out of touch for trying to limit my stack to containers?
    1 project | /r/ExperiencedDevs | 18 May 2023
    Edge runtimes are very good alternatives to containers that shouldn't be dismissed for "not being containers". They're often faster, more scalable, and cheaper than containers. Them being so lightweight also enable a "nanoservice architecture" – being able to run every service on a single computer instead of running different services on different computers and having to deal with network latency and unreliability.
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    workos.com | 26 Apr 2024
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