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AssemblyLift: a Framework for running WebAssembly on AWS Lambda

Dan on May 10, 2020

Today, I finally opened a pet project of mine up to the public! I call it AssemblyLift, and it is (and/or will become) a framework for writing ser...
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Daniel Crotzer

Hello Dan,

Thank you for this! We are looking to run Lambdas with node.js and Webassembly (with C...not Rust).

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Dan

Hi Daniel! Thanks for checking this out! I'm planning to extend support to C eventually (after things stabilize a little), but I'm not sure how long this will take.

Can I ask what made you decide to go with C (as opposed to Rust)? I'm just curious -- I worked with C for a long time, and these days I mostly avoid it in favor of Rust 😆

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We have loops that take 30 seconds in Python, we need the speed that C provides (and the community is broad).