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Unison Cloud
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#2"Unison Cloud is now generally available"
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#3Congrats!
I haven't tried unison, but it sounded like magic when I first heard about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adu75GJ0w1o (Worth a watch - Rúnar is awesome)
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#4Whoa, I just started building something similar for scrapscript!
Curious: Who is the target demographic for this service? Hobbyists?
I'm also interested in what benefits unison touts specifically. Is the only reason to choose unison over Cloudflare's workers the conveniences of functional typing and other ergonomics?
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#5Whoa, I just started building something similar for scrapscript! Curious: Who is the target demographic for this service? Hobbyists? I'm also interested in what benefits unison touts specifically. Is the only reason to choose unison over Cloudflare's workers the conveniences of functional typing and other ergonomics?
This may be more of a comp. sci. answer than you're looking for, but the thing I find most unique is the content-addressed functional language underlying it. Content-addressed meaning that definitions can be identified with "a hash of the AST", which is used as the building block for distributed programming: https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/the-big-idea/
I see the unison.cloud service itself as more of a first large-scale demo of what you can build on that idea (which will hopefully also fund it). But the underlying language is open source and I think could have legs in a bunch of possible applications.
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#6Whoa, I just started building something similar for scrapscript! Curious: Who is the target demographic for this service? Hobbyists? I'm also interested in what benefits unison touts specifically. Is the only reason to choose unison over Cloudflare's workers the conveniences of functional typing and other ergonomics?
Unison is an actual language with many cutting edge features.
Im fairly sure Unison was created for a mix of practical and theoretical concerns, especially the intersection thereof.
My gut tells me Cloudflare workers are some type of low-code solution.
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#7Is Unison something I can easily self host? I wouldn't want to be vendor locked to Unison Cloud.
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#8Whoa, I just started building something similar for scrapscript! Curious: Who is the target demographic for this service? Hobbyists? I'm also interested in what benefits unison touts specifically. Is the only reason to choose unison over Cloudflare's workers the conveniences of functional typing and other ergonomics?
This may be more of a comp. sci. answer than you're looking for, but the thing I find most unique is the content-addressed functional language underlying it. Content-addressed meaning that definitions can be identified with "a hash of the AST", which is used as the building block for distributed programming: https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/the-big-idea/ I see the unison.cloud service itself as more of a first large-…
Thanks! Yeah, my language is content-addressable too, which is why I'm interested in how it's being used in the wild.
I'm excited to see how it progresses beyond "first large-scale demo"!
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#9I don't "get" Unison the language, could someone explain how it's different than other languages? Is it something like tRPC combined with serverless, but at a language level?
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#10Looks really cool. I hope they wrap their language with a variant of python or typecript or something, as I think a lot of the former programmers would embrace this type of deployment model.
I'm just not sure they'd want to learn haskell style syntax.