Looking at the description, it seems that Fastly supports web assembly and Rust is one of the languages that can compile to web assembly.<p>However to show my excitement about Rust, I will be appending " - supports Rust" to any announcement I post. For example:<p>New Linux Kernel released - supports Rust<p>Dell releases new Developer edition XPS - supports Rust<p>Intel releases Ice Lake processors - supports Rust<p>Windows 10 Update - supports Rust
Their speeds look impressive. If it can do cold starts with a response time of <200ms, it might become suitable for a lot of our typical web apps. You can actually try it out at: <a href="https://wasm.fastlylabs.com/" rel="nofollow">https://wasm.fastlylabs.com/</a>
Congrats to the Fastly team for achieving this milestone!<p>It's great to see more companies betting on server-side WebAssembly as an enabler for Edge computing.
This Lucet thing seems pretty awesome. It's apparently an AOT WASM compiler with WASI that runs anywhere. (Disclaimer: Family member works at Fastly but I truly find this impressive.)
It would be nice to see how this compares to Firecracker (<a href="https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/" rel="nofollow">https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/</a>) the runtime behind AWS Lambda
In other news, Fastly's new compute environment supports C++, C, COBOL, and Brainf*ck. And, y'know, computes, in any time left over. If you like.