[biggestlou]

Well, the key difference is that using all those things together is very quickly going to ensnare you in a big pile of goo. That you can forgo all of that and just write functions without having to build them into Wasm or any other format with any kind of build tool is the difference. That you get typed data storage without running a DB. That there is no “deployment” whatsoever.

[turtlebits]

Until you screw yourself with vendor lock in on a proprietary language.

It's at least a pile of goo that you can take to other providers or host yourself.

[pchiusano]

The language is open source. See this reply re: self-hosting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39293568

[turtlebits]

Proprietary as in you write your code for Unison Cloud, and have to rewrite the infra parts if you decide to self host.

This is why infra is decoupled from code and you need things like "deployments".

[actionfromafar]

You can't self-host Unison?