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.