news.ycombinator.com• Mar 6, 2021• 1 min read
Launch HN: Lunatic (YC W21) – An Erlang Inspired WebAssembly PlatformHi HN! We’re Bernard & Hrvoje and we are Lunatic (https://lunatic.solutions/). Our goal is to improve how you run server-side code by building an open-source runtime that gives you lightweight processes, fault tolerance, and capability-based security for different parts of the application. Basically, we want to combine the power of Erlang with WebAssembly and bring that to new and existing applications.The two of us met in high school, studied computer science together, but then went separate ways working as backend engineers. Bernard worked at CERN and Hrvoje co-founded Amodo, an insurance tech startup. Bernard, being a huge fan of Erlang/Elixir, started working on a similar open-source runtime for WebAssembly which he called Lunatic (https://github.com/lunatic-solutions/lunatic).Lunatic runs Wasm modules as lightweight processes with its own heap/stack and preemptively schedules them on a multi-threaded executor. You can spawn those processes using a library we provide (currently for
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