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Yeah, the core ideas sound great, but if the only way code can be published and imported is via their cloud platform, that would be a hard pass for me.

Glancing at their docs, I see mentions of Unison Share, which is also hosted on unison-lang.org.

So I would appreciate this being clarified upfront in all their marketing and documentation.

Ah, I do see the BYOC option you mention. It still requires a unison.cloud account and an active subscription, though...

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Unison code is published on https://share.unison-lang.org/ which is itself open source (it's a Haskell + postgres app), as is the language and its tooling. You can use Unison like any other open source general-purpose language, and many people do that. (We ourselves did this when building Unison Cloud - we wrote Unison code and deployed that within containers running in AWS.)

The cloud product is totally separate and optional.

Maybe we'll have a page or a reference somewhere to make the lines more clear.

I see, thanks. It's reassuring to know that I can use all language features without relying on any of your infrastructure.

yeah, unison cloud is like the "heroku for functions" if you wanna not think about how deployments work. But you can just run unison programs standalone or in a docker container or whatever: https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/usage-topics/docker/

Is a standalone Unison Code instance something that could be deployed in a docker container for personal use?

https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/usage-topics/docker/

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