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I would even pay a few bucks (one time, not a subscription) to license this software for use. I would love to use Unison for my personal projects, but I'm not a

by ok_dad 3y ago

I would even pay a few bucks (one time, not a subscription) to license this software for use. I would love to use Unison for my personal projects, but I'm not about to get locked-in to something, I'd rather build something myself that was worse than this than get locked in for personal projects. I know it has a free tier now, but in the future that may not exist.

eweise 3y ago
The language is free to use.
- ok_dad 3y ago
  Yes but what’s a language without a deployment strategy?
  - eweise 3y ago
    Not familiar with its deployment strategy. I assumed it could built into a binary but maybe not.
  - badelectron 3y ago
    Since this announcement is about Unison Cloud, it might not be clear for people who aren't familiar with the Unison language that you can run Unison programs without Unison Cloud. So much like just about any other language you can put a Unison program in a Docker container, deploy it via AWS Lambda, etc. Unison Cloud is kind of an "easy mode" for scalable and distributed deployment with support for typed durable storage, the option to expose public HTTP/websocket endpoints, etc. Here is an example of containerizing a Unison program: https://github.com/ceedubs/containerized-unison-program https://github.com/ceedubs/containerized-unison-program And here is a library that makes it easy to create an AWS Lambda out of a Unison function: https://share.unison-lang.org/@gfinol/lambda-runtime https://share.unison-lang.org/@gfinol/lambda-runtime