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by winwiz 1499 days ago
One of the substantial sticking point issues, likely to be discovered by a developer who just made a dive into the Workers ecosystem, is the lack of full NodeJS compatibility. Taken for granted by people who didn't realise at first that Workers are not running on V8.

Hopefully open sourcing will stimulate the community, and maybe Cloudflare, to address the incompatibility issue. For example, to develop a shim emulating some filesystem APIs with underlying storage being as scalable as people expect from a filesystem and backed by either KV or upcoming R2.

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Perhaps https://github.com/lukeed/worktop will help with that?
Typo, meant to say: ... that Workers are running on V8.
That doesn't make sense as a typo? Node.js runs on V8 too. And whether two platforms run on V8 doesn't say much about their compatibility outside of "they both run javascript".