[HN Gopher] AWS Introduces a New JavaScript Runtime for Lambda
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       AWS Introduces a New JavaScript Runtime for Lambda
        
       Author : bubblehack3r
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2024-03-20 21:33 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | ttfkam wrote:
       | Can't wait for LLRT to be marked stable. Was spending time
       | looking into Rust lambdas, but was reluctant about the total
       | build times for my stacks and getting new team members onboarded
       | with lambdas. (Though in fairness, Rust lambdas tend to be short
       | and digestible, which are perfect for Rust novices.)
       | 
       | LLRT is basically no learning curve. Same old esbuild most TS and
       | JS devs are used to. I guess we're sticking with one language
       | from front to back again:
       | 
       | CDK in TS, lambdas in TS, and frontend logic in TS.
        
         | avandekleut wrote:
         | This is how I did it at my previous job. A clever setup allows
         | you to have frontend/backend end-to-end type safety. We even
         | made our lambda environment variables typed, through to the CDK
         | code that populated them.
        
       | tony-allan wrote:
       | I noticed that you can use QuickJS as en embedded scripting
       | language within Python.
       | 
       | [1] https://github.com/PetterS/quickjs
        
       | mattashii wrote:
       | > This also means that its size is tiny, in the order of a few
       | kilobytes in contrast to the 20+MB required by its counterparts.
       | 
       | A full, performant ES2023 runtime, in "the order of a few
       | kilobytes"? Even when you remove all JIT and GC, that sounds too
       | fantastic.
       | 
       | I'll believe it when I see it.
        
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