> I was reading this article on Cloudflare workers [...] and seemed like isolates have significant advantage over serverless technology like lambda etc.
You are conflating serverless (which is a particular deployment and lifecycle model) with a specific technique for implementing it.
There are inevitably going to be different performance/capability tradeoffs between this and other ways of implementing serverless, such as containers, VMs, etc.
> Simultaneously, they don’t use a virtual machine or a container, which means you are actually running closer to the metal than any other form of cloud computing I’m aware of.
V8 is a VM. Not in the VMware/KVM sense of the term, but a VM nonetheless.
You are conflating serverless (which is a particular deployment and lifecycle model) with a specific technique for implementing it.
There are inevitably going to be different performance/capability tradeoffs between this and other ways of implementing serverless, such as containers, VMs, etc.
> Simultaneously, they don’t use a virtual machine or a container, which means you are actually running closer to the metal than any other form of cloud computing I’m aware of.
V8 is a VM. Not in the VMware/KVM sense of the term, but a VM nonetheless.