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It's kinda amazing that Sandstorm still has a relatively interested following, especially among devs. Kenton Varda would be proud (kvarda - hackernews username)
by fishtacos 3y ago
It's kinda amazing that Sandstorm still has a relatively interested following, especially among devs. Kenton Varda would be proud (kvarda - hackernews username).
I was a huge fan of the project during its hay day, yet it didn't gather enough interest to make it popular as a self-hosting solution. For the apps it still has (including this one), it's still unmatchable.
- abdullahkhalids 3y agoWhat essential apps does it not have according to you?
- fishtacos 3y agoSandstorm requires rewriting of every app to make it compatible with its security architecture. You can look at Cloudron to see what it's missing. Last I checked, Yuno was a close second, but not nearly as polished. Regardless, that does not diminish its usefulness. I ran it for several years and love the idea of isolated instances one can share with unique links. Learned a lot just hosting it, so thanks again, Kenton - he was on IRC chat when I had a question. True geek through and through.
- ocdtrekkie 3y ago"Rewriting" is perhaps a slight exaggeration, but packaging apps for Sandstorm usually requires some changes. A lot of time the features we need apps to have are useful for apps to support anyways. Sometimes we are able to get improvements included upstream which make Sandstorm packaging easier. But it is definitely fair to say some apps require some significant work to adapt to Sandstorm, and some don't make sense on Sandstorm at all. Honestly my strong preference is for apps to be written directly for Sandstorm, though obviously there is a big chicken and egg problem to getting people to build apps to run on Sandstorm instead of Docker-based tools.