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tombl
@tombl.dev

this is unfortunate, did they lower their limits in the move? I think they migrated from isolates to containers/VMs so that would check out

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Mastro.{js,ts}
@mastrojs.bsky.social

Interesting! Is there anything publicly known about why they moved away from isolates? Seemed like that would give them better economics, and without they’re a hosting provider like any other?

tombl
@tombl.dev

They haven't published anything about "why we moved away from isolates", but they are happy to talk about the better Node compat, database support, and new CI/sandbox stuff that moving to VMs enables.

tombl
@tombl.dev

plus I think maintaining a whole second runtime for their cloud platform, and keeping it secure, just takes more engineering effort than they were willing to spend. unless you have Cloudflare's infra/scale/commitment I don't think building a platform like this on top of isolates is really viable.

Mastro.{js,ts}
@mastrojs.bsky.social

I had assumed they had organized the Deno codebase in a way that they can easily build the standalone binary and the isolates from the same core codebase. But perhaps that’s not possible for some reason?