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Think instead about a frontend or app developer who wants a simple backend that Just Works and can talk to the outside world painlessly (and there are tons of c
by btown 7y ago
Think instead about a frontend or app developer who wants a simple backend that Just Works and can talk to the outside world painlessly (and there are tons of cases where something like Firebase wouldn't suffice). They're not worried about closed-source or lock-in because that's simply not going to move the needle on their project's success at that stage. It could be huge for that market.
- carlosdp 7y agoDo you need a brand new language to solve that problem though? That sounds like something solved by a FaaS platform that exposes a database and other common primitives out of the box, of which plenty are popping up all over the place. If we're talking about a front-end dev, they're probably using React, in ES/Typescript. Any backend product targeting these devs would be nuts to not start by offering a JS environment, I would think. Hence why every FaaS thus far starts with a Node env.