There is lots of potential. I'm working on a startup idea around Cloudflare at the moment.
Here is something that can help with Cloudflare horrible tooling: Use wasm/Rust. You'll be able to compile and run most of your code locally, and then when you deploy you have more odds of your code not bugging on the cloud.
Feels a lot like uploading PHP via FTP. The world moved on, I expect to test this stuff locally and if it breaks because of screwed up vendor tools, there better be source code.
It is PHP via FTP with a key-value database. The difference is that you have no server to manage and your code is deployed to hundreds of locations.
I had a similar experience. I tried installing some of their CLI tools and was met with some undocumented errors I didn't want to bother digging through code to figure out.
> But there is definitely potential.
I agree! It's something I'm watching with eager eyes, but don't feel like is the first option I'd turn to when making a technology choice.
Another technology that gives me this feeling is FaunaDB [0].
[0]: https://fauna.com/
I have something fairly simple I’m going to build to try out workers. The getting started docs seemed ok to me.
I would love to have a local runtime so I could iterate faster.
The tooling, documentation and language integration is rather awkward and cumbersome at the moment.
Sparse documentation, language tooling that seems very half baked, workflows don't feel intuitive.
But there is definitely potential.