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Re:Spin – WebAssembly Framework by debarshri on Friday April 01, 2022 @07:12AM (#30877020)
This is so true. I think this project feels like breathe of fresh air and also forced you to think different on how to go about building serverless stuff.

Someone mentioned about carbon footprint of increase due to containerization and the kubernetes culture during discussion about dagger [1]. Cloud cost, cloud waste and climate impact of current cloud computing setups are some biggest problem of this decade that are often ignored. I think webassembly and frameworks like these are the answer to that problem.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30857012

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Re:Spin – WebAssembly Framework by technosophos on Friday April 01, 2022 @02:19PM (#30881543)
Hi! (Another one of the Spin authors here)

We have been talking about the efficiency/footprint thing a lot. So many things sit idle in the datacenter, consuming electricity without a good reason. WebAssembly is so fast to startup and shutdown that we think we can actually make a sizable dent into amount of compute required (and hence, amount of electricity consumed) if we can build this tooling right.

Spin took a first pass at this, but there is more we want to do to boost that efficiency even more! Hopefully in a few months I will be able to write a blog post with some progress on this.

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Re:Spin – WebAssembly Framework by debarshri on Saturday April 02, 2022 @07:49AM (#30887495)
Looking forward to write up! Super excited about the project. We might actually end up using it.
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