alt Hacker NewsA WordPress spiritual successor backed by Cloudflare sounds great in theory, but the headline feature, plugin isolation via Dynamic Workers, only works on Cloudflare's runtime. On any other host it's just a TypeScript CMS without the security model that justifies its existence. Open source but architecturally locked in.
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arcfour • today at 8:44 PM
Workerd (the platform for Workers) is open source though? You could run your own? And people do run their own, at least according to Cloudflare.
wmf • today at 8:18 PM
Maybe other runtimes should copy dynamic workers.
zsoltkacsandi • today at 6:10 PM
> Open source but architecturally locked in.
You hit the nail on the head.
Cloudflare's new business model is to find popular OSS projects, create a vibe coded alternative that only runs on Cloudflare's infrastructure.
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gbibas • today at 8:29 PM
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I missed this. So they didn’t really solve much at all. I guess at least it’s compatible with other runtimes. But yeah, who would’ve guessed that Cloudflare software would (besides being vibeslop) prefer Cloudflare infra. This, of course, makes the software quite hard to adopt.