[snops]

This sales pitch ignores cloudflare workers, which sound pretty similar to me, with both webassembly and key-value storage.

The distinguishing part of the articles option seems to be that webassembly functions are uploaded in an OCI container, which I don't think anyone else supports, and I don't think was designed with this use case in mind?

[sofixa]

> The distinguishing part of the articles option seems to be that webassembly functions are uploaded in an OCI container, which I don't think anyone else supports, and I don't think was designed with this use case in mind?

OCI is just the storage and registry format, and is being used for all sorts of things (e.g. you can store OPA policies for conftest in it). I'm not familiar with Fermyon's internal workings, but my read of it was that they simply use the storage format, not that there's an intermediate container layer.

Edit: can confirm, there are no containers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36352869

[snops]

If its "just storage", how is it any better for this application than a zip file?

[sofixa]

OCI is a standard that supports layers (and cache thereof), hashes and has a verified way of sharing (via OCI image registries).

A .zip is much more monolithic, and there are no ready-made .zip registries you can upload your .zip to that will automatically checksum it, or allow it to be delivered in layers (and skipping the layers already present on the registry/destination).

[austhrow743]

Oh no they didn't ignore them. They included them with the slow, locked in, poor developer experience first generation providers but also with a "more limited fashion" disclaimer.

[Cupprum]

I dont think they are going to run the web-assembly in docker. That would not change the status-quo at all. Already now aws lambda, which executes container has a longer cold start then the zipped code.