Python Workers are now generally available

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• simonw 11 minutes ago
  Pyodide is such a cool piece of the Python ecosystem. I hope Cloudflare consider throwing some money their direction: https://opencollective.com/pyodide/contribute
• dsign 2 hours ago
  This is the tech at Cloudflare of course, but I swear that my first interpretation of the title was "We have replaced all our python coders with AI and they (the coders) are out and generally available" :-)
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  • Joeboy 2 hours ago
    Yeah I initially read it as a headline about the grim state of the software dev jobs market.
• spicypixel 52 minutes ago
  One day it’ll be similarly beautifully trivial to use go too. I hope.
• stefan_lec 2 hours ago
  How do these perform for cold-starts? I remember one of the disadvantages of using web assembly for Workers was more spin-up time, but maybe they figured out a way around that.
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  • dom96 1 hour ago
    We’ve got some cold start numbers in our previous blog post: https://blog.cloudflare.com/python-workers-advancements/.

    There is still more to do here and it’s what we will be focusing on next.

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    • hbcondo714 13 minutes ago
      Thanks, we've been using firecracker VMs with AWS MicroVM[1] and Fly.io Sprites[1] but interested in using Workers instead

      [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48642510

      [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557825
    • aeyes 12 minutes ago
      The cold start numbers on that blog post show that its faster than AWS Lambda but your linked benchmark page [1] shows that Lambda is not only much faster but also much more consistent.

      [1] https://cold.picheta.me/#bare
• karmakaze 23 minutes ago
  They should support Mojo which might be a great fit for edge compute.
• victorbjorklund 18 minutes ago
  Elixir next ;) with clustering across workers (kind of kidding because elixir probably does not make sense for CF workers)
• pastrami_panda 11 minutes ago
  All example pages return 404.