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Re: Show HN: 2.7KB Zig WASM – live globe showing executions at 300 CF edges

#11

"36 cities so far. Every visit lights up your dot." You paid to patent this, whatever it is. How about more than two sentences to see what you're charging people for. I can't tell from the website's "About" page. Edit: Even the github link is a 404, I give up.

MCPaaS is trademarked. Nothing it patented.

Re: Show HN: 2.7KB Zig WASM – live globe showing executions at 300 CF edges

#12

Plus a 1.8 MB Javascript file ;) ...that's too big for a JS shim to talk to browser APIs... it looks more like a complete 3D engine - e.g. three.js or similar? From that pov the 2.7 KB WASM is a bit misleading (or rather meaningless), it could be a single function call into that massive JS blob where all the work happens.

Three.js alone is ~400KB uncompressed.

Re: Show HN: 2.7KB Zig WASM – live globe showing executions at 300 CF edges

#15

Plus a 1.8 MB Javascript file ;) ...that's too big for a JS shim to talk to browser APIs... it looks more like a complete 3D engine - e.g. three.js or similar? From that pov the 2.7 KB WASM is a bit misleading (or rather meaningless), it could be a single function call into that massive JS blob where all the work happens.

This is a completely baffling website but as far as I can tell, the 2.7 WASM thing is the MCP runtime this is marketing? The globe thing is independent of that, just showing there the MCP calls are running.

Re: Show HN: 2.7KB Zig WASM – live globe showing executions at 300 CF edges

#16

Plus a 1.8 MB Javascript file ;) ...that's too big for a JS shim to talk to browser APIs... it looks more like a complete 3D engine - e.g. three.js or similar? From that pov the 2.7 KB WASM is a bit misleading (or rather meaningless), it could be a single function call into that massive JS blob where all the work happens.

Fair point — globe.gl (Three.js) handles the 3D rendering client-side.

The 2.7KB WASM is the server-side scoring engine — Zig-compiled, runs on every request at the Cloudflare edge. The globe visualizes where those executions happen.

Two separate layers: WASM at the edge, JS in the browser.

Re: Show HN: 2.7KB Zig WASM – live globe showing executions at 300 CF edges

#17
post #10

WASM + Zig (even compiling C code) will make some really tiny WASM files with no dependencies. The problem is that you don't have a standard library, then your code gets really big as you add more of that in there.

Exactly right. 2.7KB works because it's pure computation — slot counting, no allocator, no stdlib, no WASI. The moment you need I/O it balloons. This use case fits a glove

Re: Show HN: 2.7KB Zig WASM – live globe showing executions at 300 CF edges

#18

"36 cities so far. Every visit lights up your dot." You paid to patent this, whatever it is. How about more than two sentences to see what you're charging people for. I can't tell from the website's "About" page. Edit: Even the github link is a 404, I give up.

Thanks for flagging the broken link. More context here: https://mcpaas.live/about
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