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Agree - I do think they have something novel with Workers, but with the upsides (small overhead, SW-like API, WASM) comes downsides (poor native multi-lang supp
by elithrar 6y ago
Agree - I do think they have something novel with Workers, but with the upsides (small overhead, SW-like API, WASM) comes downsides (poor native multi-lang support, JS API drives other languages).
But this announcement is all “man behind the curtain”: you’re not really writing Python, but instead JavaScript-as-Python, without any of the good parts of Python or modern JavaScript. Instead you’re likely to end up with a Franken-program that is neither.
As a way to appeal to some users, sure: this would have been a solid set of guides/tutorials on the edge of what they support. But as a major announcement, it feels like Cloudflare is trying to trick users into seeing Workers as something it’s not.