Launch HN: Lunatic (YC W21) – An Erlang Inspired WebAssembly Platform

Re:Launch HN: Lunatic (YC W21) – An Erlang Inspired WebAssem... by nojvek on Saturday March 06, 2021 @11:09AM (#26368331)

I 100% agree with some of the trends you mentioned

1) lightweight isolated computation - VMs, containers and the lot.

2) asynchronous io - user space green threads, epoll, event loops and the likes to have single OS process handle 1000s of connections

3) distributed - scale up compute + have it run close to user. Cloudflare workers, edge@lambda, fly.io. They’re all moving to this direction.

4) polyglot micro services - rather than one big thing written in a single language, many small things that talk to each other via HTTP & grpc. They can be independently changed and scaled up without having to restart the whole system.

Erlang + webassembly are a great fit for this paradigm.

Seeing the success of fly.io, Cloudflare workers and other cloud providers, this definitely has legs and I would love to try it out.

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Re:Launch HN: Lunatic (YC W21) – An Erlang Inspired WebAssem... by withtypes on Saturday March 06, 2021 @12:52PM (#26369133)

Fly.io is doing cool stuff! We will try out their platform to deploy Lunatic to the edge.

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Re:Launch HN: Lunatic (YC W21) – An Erlang Inspired WebAssem... by amelius on Saturday March 06, 2021 @11:16AM (#26368378)

> lightweight isolated computation

Sounds good, as long as we can have structural sharing between processes on the same CPU, for performance.

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Re:Launch HN: Lunatic (YC W21) – An Erlang Inspired WebAssem... by otabdeveloper4 on Sunday March 07, 2021 @01:09AM (#26373586)

No offence, but points 1-4 are the year 2000's solutions to 1990's problems.

Programming is an infuriatingly obtuse and, well, stupid discipline.

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