Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare

We've got good news for developers who are enamored with Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects but don’t want to be tied into that company’s backend infrastructure. Last week, Node.js creator Ryan Dahl unveiled his latest project, celld, which he described on X as “a self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects and Workers …

[Pascal Monett]

Beautiful

Just goes to show that, whatever the billionaires think is The Future, one smart (or of superior intelligence) person can still do things that actually benefit people, not just billionaires.

[chuckufarley]

Oh so the creator of...

...Code enshitification has a new project? It's a low bar to say i hope it's better than their most famous project. Node.js should never have been because javascript should never have been.

[sabroni]

Re: javascript should never have been.

Aww, did the nasty language coerce some variable types and confuse you?

[shodanbo]

Re: Oh so the creator of...

JS coders hate state and keep re-inventing wheels to try and deal with it while simultaneously pretending it does not exist.

"Durable Objects" to me sounds like somebody is saying "Make everything immutable" was not always a good idea but we can't say that lest the rest of the JS community come at us with pitchforks.

[sabroni]

Anyone remember Microsoft Transaction Server?

Using a message pump to serialise requests into a bunch of single threaded workers?

Sometimes it makes sense to take a simple approach even when the problem is complex.

Who knew!