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0 pointslocknitpicker1mo ago0 comments

> I'm building my entire back-end on CF Workers. The DX was really frustrating starting out, but I'm using Rust/WASM, which means most of my issues get caught at compile time.

Cloudflare Workers support WASM, which is how they support any runtime beyond JavaScript. Cloudflare Worker's support for WASM is subpar, which is reflected even in things like the Terraform provider. Support for service bindings such as KV does not depend on WASM or anything like that: you specify your Wrangler config and you're done. I wonder what you are doing to end up making a series of suboptimal decisions.

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csomar1mo ago

The bindings are still done at the JS level. But to answer your question, I'm building a git workflow engine (kind of a lightweight GitHub Actions alternative; see https://codeinput.com). In that context, you get lots of events and payloads from Git/GitHub that typically require very little resources to respond to or relay.

The worker model made sense, so I developed the whole app around it. Now of course, knowing what I know today, I might have considered different options. But at the time, I read the description (and had some Cloudflare Workers experience) and thought this looked good.

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0 pointslocknitpicker1mo ago0 comments

> I'm building my entire back-end on CF Workers. The DX was really frustrating starting out, but I'm using Rust/WASM, which means most of my issues get caught at compile time.

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csomar1mo ago

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