[HN Gopher] Show HN: Blueboat is an all-in-one, multi-tenant ser...
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       Show HN: Blueboat is an all-in-one, multi-tenant serverless
       JavaScript runtime
        
       Author : losfair
       Score  : 64 points
       Date   : 2022-07-26 16:33 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blueboat.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blueboat.io)
        
       | josephscott wrote:
       | This sounds quite a bit like Cloudflare Workers, and they have a
       | comparison page -
       | https://github.com/losfair/blueboat/wiki/Comparison-with-Clo....
        
         | rozenmd wrote:
         | Comparison looks inaccurate, judging by
         | https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/learning/using-web...
        
           | kentonv wrote:
           | I think the comparison is just old, it used to be accurate.
           | 
           | - Cloudflare Workers now supports WebSocket.
           | 
           | - Cloudflare Workers now supports strongly-consistent storage
           | / ACID transactions with Durable Objects.
           | 
           | - Cloudflare Workers is becoming open source, but not there
           | yet (I am refactoring the code for this as we speak):
           | https://twitter.com/KentonVarda/status/1523666343412654081
           | 
           | (Disclosure: I'm the tech lead for Cloudflare Workers.)
        
             | js4ever wrote:
             | Any progress on open sourcing it? I can see the
             | announcement was done in may
        
               | kentonv wrote:
               | Just posted an update, actually: https://twitter.com/Kent
               | onVarda/status/1552052028595208197
        
             | codetrotter wrote:
             | What language(s) is Cloudflare Workers written in?
        
               | kentonv wrote:
               | C++
               | 
               | (Sorry. Rust wasn't ready yet when we started.)
        
       | shekhar101 wrote:
       | Sort of related - the website design is beautiful. So clean and
       | to the point. I checked the source and it's Tailwind :) Very well
       | executed and a great inspiration me to look into source code for
       | my own designs.
        
         | beebeepka wrote:
         | Tailwind improves design now?
        
           | jeremycarter wrote:
           | Some people are funny hey.
        
       | system2 wrote:
       | I want to punch a drywall each time when I read "serverless".
        
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         | e-clinton wrote:
         | I felt the same with "big data" 5 years ago
        
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       | gabereiser wrote:
       | This is really neat. I'm a little sad that it requires rewriting
       | of your js app to make it work with it but still. I'm going to
       | tinker with this for sure.
        
         | kasperl wrote:
         | No V8? The website explicitly says that Blueboat combines
         | Google's state-of-the-art V8 JavaScript engine, process-level
         | snapshots, and Rust to speed up everything from cold start to
         | runtime performance.
        
           | gabereiser wrote:
           | I didn't see that until after. Sad, v8 is a massive library.
        
             | kasperl wrote:
             | When we wrote the initial version of V8, it was reasonably
             | small :)
        
       | upupandup wrote:
       | I don't understand how its offering differs from existing cloud
       | offerings from AWS, Cloudflare and Netlify
        
         | wmf wrote:
         | This is open source so you can compete with AWS, Cloudflare,
         | and Netlify.
        
       | JLCarveth wrote:
       | I am definitely not an expert, but aren't there plenty of
       | Javascript runtimes already? What does this do differently?
        
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       | moralestapia wrote:
       | This is great stuff, I would definitely be trying it out. If the
       | owner is here, can I get beta access to MagicBoat?
        
       | spankalee wrote:
       | I'd love to see a multi-tenant, low cold-start, runtime like
       | this, but with no additional JS APIs for databases, pub-sub, etc.
       | I'd want to provide any I/O or storage myself via built-in
       | modules.
        
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       | syrusakbary wrote:
       | Congrats on the launch, Heyang! Excited for you and the awesome
       | work on Blueboat/Magicboat
        
       | vorpalhex wrote:
       | Neat. This looks like a good lightweight solution for your own
       | lambda/edge worker clone. Built in multi-tenant is a nice touch.
        
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