[brundolf]

HN title is a little editorialized, making it sound like a new browser standard. Should be edited imo

The materials themselves also drip with exaggeration and hand-waving, talking about things like "the legacy cloud VM" (emphasis mine), "unmatched security", "spinning up the entire dev environment in milliseconds"

All of this is aside from the actual technology, which could be cool, I have no idea yet. But it rubbed me the wrong way

[scoopertrooper]

They are aiming to develop a standard... of sorts...

https://github.com/stackblitz/webcontainer-core

[nine_k]

This sounds pretty reasonable, is easily readable, and I suppose this should be the main URL.

The idea is to use the browser as the dev environment, all of it: emulate a file system, run non-JS tools compiled to WASM on top of it, and access networking via the browser, too. For Node-based development, this sounds rather doable.

[vdfs]

It is nice, but not totally free or open source:

"WebContainers rely on hosted proxies and server-side acceleration to enable truly instant development environments. By obtaining a WebContainer API license, your business can gain access to higher API rate limits, uptime reliability, and a range of benefits designed to help you maximize the potential of the WebContainer API in your organization.

Licensing is required for production usage of the API in a for-profit setting (feel free to prototype as much as you like without a license). If you're using the API to meet the needs of your customers, prospective customers, and/or employees you need a license to ensure continued access to the API as you scale.

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