Binbin has been quietly cooking on something very powerful this batch: a small, fast VM with container-like ergonomics that runs everywhere.
I think it has the potential to become a new primitive for deploying software
BinBin (@binsquares)
smolvm has hit stable release: v1.0.0!
You can now fork smolvm.
It means you can fork to create virtual machines off of an existing one in less than 100ms, with all the processes cloned and running.
smolvm is the first to have this feature + cross platform compatibility (macOS and linux natively).
Here's a demo of a counter continuing on a forked clone while I only started it on the original!
Video
— https://nitter.net/binsquares/status/2063031742051786849#m