On: Deno 1.35: A fast and convenient way to build web servers

[benatkin]

I used to think the sandboxing feature was going to be a really big deal but I don't any more. I think WASM is eating their lunch in sandboxing. I'm keeping a close eye on Fermyon and Dapr.

[pjmlp → benatkin]

WASM is just application servers being talked by those that didn't lived through Java and .NET application servers.

Now served with tons of YAML configuration files instead of XML, and being told to configure our own Kubernetes infrastructure on top of it.

[qbasic_forever → benatkin]

Deno runs WASM code just fine and IMHO will probably be the pre-eminent way to use server side WASM (because you likely also need some JS/TS bootstrapping or glue code too for setting up a basic API or other endpoints): https://deno.land/manual@v1.10.0/getting_started/webassembly

[benatkin → qbasic_forever]

If you're writing your server side code in JavaScript, yeah. I don't think it will be pre-eminent. I think it could be popular but much less popular than Node.

There are server side WASM runtimes for other languages, though. Including ones that let you write endpoints entirely with WASM (and its languages like Rust and Go*), like Fermyon and Dapr.

* https://github.com/appcypher/awesome-wasm-langs