Bernard Kolobara - Lunatic - Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly - Rust Vienna May 2023

At the Rust Vienna Meetup on 2023-05-25, Bernard Kolobara the maintainer of Lunatic - an Erlang inspired runtime for WebAssembly presented it to the audience at Metalab.
Links:
Rust Vienna Meetup - www.meetup.com/Rust-Vienna/
Lunatic - github.com/lunatic-solutions/...
Bernard Kolobara (bkolobara) - github.com/bkolobara
Metalab - metalab.at/

[@JE0RB]

Neat project! Note for editor: Please put the video overlay somewhere else next time (maybe top right). Some of the slides have text covered up.

[@user-cb2vu4wd2g]

I fell in love with this project fastly.. especially that submillisecond-liveview. It's mind blowing

[@nunoalexandre6408]

Love it!!!!!!!!!!

[@aaronr.9644]

really cool :)

[@alexpyattaev]

This project has a real chance to beat Erlang at its own game. Especially with capability to make handlers in different languages.

[@Roms8313]

great talk ! but it'd be even better if we could know what were the questions asked (even mere subtitles would do).

[@WinterHoax]

Is this a competitor to tokio-rs?

[@yvesm5455]

Both are runtime environment that allow async programming; but they have very different goals, tokio is focused on performance and use a lightweight runtime, while this seems like a full featured runtime, geared towards task isolation (through a WASM runtime) for security reasons and fault tolerance. (I'm not very familiar with Lunatic, please correct me if I'm wrong).

[@klasus2344]

I think lunatic gives you the power of stackful coroutines, like Go / Erlang, so you can suspend anywhere

[@LtdJorge]

@@yvesm5455Lunatic runs on top of Tokio

[@LtdJorge]

@@klasus2344 Yes, although Go’s are cooperative, while Erlang is unique in that it’s scheduler is preemptive (and one scheduler per CPU, but that’s more platform dependent).