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Will it ever run in WASM? EDIT: there is Lumen, but not sure if it's stalled or still going.
by nakamoto_damacy 11mo ago
Will it ever run in WASM?
EDIT: there is Lumen, but not sure if it's stalled or still going.
- calvinmorrison 11mo agoUsage It is not immediately clear what the intended usage pattern for Lumen and WebAssembly is. Pros and Cons Things we like: The idea of having both runtime and code compile is cool Things we’re not big fans of: We could not immediately figure out exactly how Lumen works, and builds appear to be failing The project might be stalled or unmaintained. It has not been updated in over a year.
- nakamoto_damacy 11mo agoWebAssembly’s goal is to be a “portable execution layer” — an OS abstraction. If WASM becomes the standard runtime across browsers, servers, and edge networks, something still has to orchestrate thousands of concurrent tasks, message queues, supervisors, restarts, etc. Erlang/OTP already solves that — beautifully. So, the motivation is: “What if BEAM’s concurrency runtime could itself be compiled to WebAssembly — and become the actor system of the WebAssembly world?” That’s why projects like Firefly and Lumen are interesting: they’re exploring whether Erlang’s runtime model can become part of the WASM ecosystem — just like how Go and Rust shaped the serverless world.
- simoncion 11mo ago> Will it ever run in WASM? A ten-second search reveals [0]. (Have Kids These Days forgotten all about Emscripten?) However, given that web browser pages are often short-lived, I don't see what benefit bringing in all of Erlang and its VM gets you, other than the fact that you've pulled off the stunt. [0] <https://www.antvaset.com/erlang-otp-wasm https://www.antvaset.com/erlang-otp-wasm>
- nakamoto_damacy 11mo agoWASM runs on the edge, e.g. in Cloudflare workers (but I mean more generally) .. And it is an emerging compatibility layer