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Hi. I'm excited to try this out. Does the typescript library for writing restate services run in Deno? And how about in a Cloudflare worker? These aren't quite nodejs environments but they do both offer comparability layers that make most nodejs libraries work. Just wondering if you know if the SDK will run in those runtimes? Thanks

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Hey! I managed to get a POC running on Cloudflare workers, I had to make some small changes to the SDK eg to remove the http2 import, convert the Cloudflare request type into the Lambda request type, and add some methods to the Buffer type. I suspect similar things would be needed on Deno platforms. We have it on our todo list (scheduled within weeks not months) to make it possible to import a version of the library that just works out of the box on these platforms. I think if we had someone with a use case asking for it, we would happily build that even sooner - maybe come chat in our discord? https://discord.gg/skW3AZ6uGd

Once http2 stuff is removed, there's nothing particularly odd that our library does that shouldn't work in all platforms, but I'm sure there will be some papercuts until we are actively testing against these targets

Disclaimer: I work for Inngest (https://www.inngest.com), which works in the same area and released 2 years ago.

The restate API is extremely similar to ours, and because of the similarities both Restate and Inngest should work on Bun, Deno, or any runtime/cloud. We most definitely do, and have users in production on all TS runtimes in every cloud (GCP, Azure, AWS, Vercel, Netlify, Fly, Render, Railway, Cloudflare, etc).

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