alt Hacker NewsI've also wondered whether implementing OS calls would have been smarter. Maybe there's already a library that does 90% for you.
But then, I get the idea of the project. If you wanted real kubernetes, it's easy to install on any OS or online in a VM.
There has to be some cutoff of features where "it runs in the browser" makes sense. I think the project has made a good call here.
Thank you!
To address the earlier comment: I didn’t go down the “implement the OS-level stuff required to get k8s to compile to wasm” path due to bundle size, honestly and truly. My testing indicated it could be over 10Mb, and I didn’t want that if I could avoid it. Turns out, I could avoid it.
Whether it’s a bad idea remains to be seen. It could be! The project will never have full parity with k8s, and as k8s moves forward I probably won’t keep up. But I think the core of k8s is stable enough that that’s okay, and I can make great content about the bits that don’t change.