Excerpt: "At AWS Reinvent 2018, Werner Vogels said it was now possible to use any language in AWS Lambda. I thought I’d put that to the test! I thought it’d b

Excerpt: "At AWS Reinvent 2018, Werner Vogels said it was now possible to use any language in AWS Lambda. I thought I’d put that to the test! I thought it’d be interesting to add lambda support for Pascal, specifically the FreePascal 3.0.0 variant found with Lazarus (the free, cross-platform version of Delphi). Mainly because it doesn’t really fit, it’s a compiled language, but I do have a remaining soft spot for the Lazarus project so I thought I’d give it a go. Fair warning, this doesn’t make ton’s of sense. As a compiled language, you can’t initialise things in the runtime and then call them from multiple instances of functions, it also doesn’t deliver an amazing cold-start experience since it needs compiling on each run. But… it does work!" Random thoughts: It might be interesting to try the same technique above, but with a smaller compiler, perhaps XD-Pascal: https://github.com/vtereshkov/xdpw https://github.com/vtereshkov/xdpw Or, if you prefer C -- the Tiny C Compiler: https://bellard.org/tcc/ https://bellard.org/tcc/