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Cloudflare Workers

Wasmer Edge vs Cloudflare Workers

Wasmer Edge and Cloudflare Workers are both serverless platforms for running websites.

Similarities

Wasmer Edge and Cloudflare Workers share this similarities:

  • Affordable
  • Infinitely scalable

Differences

Wasmer Edge and Cloudflare Workers differ in significant ways:

  • Wasmer Edge supports multithreaded applications, while "multi-threading and shared memory are not permitted in [Cloudflare] Workers"
  • Wasmer Edge can run Python, Rust, and other languages without any JS glue code, while Cloudflare Workers can only run WebAssembly through JavaScript. Example: Django can't run in Cloudflare workers.
  • Wasmer Edge doesn't require code changes in your application to run, while you need to adapt your JS code to use the custom Workers SDK to run.
  • Wasmer Edge can allow any incoming TCP connection, while Cloudflare Workers can only serve HTTP and websocket requests.