Unison code is published on https://share.unison-lang.org/ which is itself open source (it's a Haskell + postgres app), as is the language and its tooling. You can use Unison like any other open source general-purpose language, and many people do that. (We ourselves did this when building Unison Cloud - we wrote Unison code and deployed that within containers running in AWS.)
The cloud product is totally separate and optional.
Maybe we'll have a page or a reference somewhere to make the lines more clear.
I see, thanks. It's reassuring to know that I can use all language features without relying on any of your infrastructure.
Re:Unison 1.0 Release
by stewoconnor on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @06:52PM
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yeah, unison cloud is like the "heroku for functions" if you wanna not think about how deployments work. But you can just run unison programs standalone or in a docker container or whatever: https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/usage-topics/docker/
Re:Unison 1.0 Release
by digdugdirk on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @08:20PM
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Is a standalone Unison Code instance something that could be deployed in a docker container for personal use?
Re:Unison 1.0 Release
by stewoconnor on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @08:29PM
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Glancing at their docs, I see mentions of Unison Share, which is also hosted on unison-lang.org.
So I would appreciate this being clarified upfront in all their marketing and documentation.
Ah, I do see the BYOC option you mention. It still requires a unison.cloud account and an active subscription, though...