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+title: My Dream Stack
+publish_date: 2022-05-29
+---
+
+[A talk on this subject given at Remix Conf](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_nxvVTNY9s&t=10790s)
+
+The web has become the medium of human information. Over the past 15 years,
+we've seen institution after institution add web interfaces. Everything from the
+New York Times to the State of New York can be accessed on the web.
+
+At this point it's safe to assume that the web will still be here, say, 5 years
+from now - if not 10 or 20 years. That means the various technical bits that
+make up the web will be here: HTTP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. JavaScript is
+inherently tied to the web, and thus inherently deeply rooted in human
+institutions. JavaScript will still be important in the future.
+
+Web Frameworks Are Constantly Improving. React components, path based routing,
+layout routes: these are all massively important innovations. Remix is a perfect
+example of the breakneck speed of innovation. Yet relatively little over the
+past decade has changed in the JavaScript runtime space. It's all still Node.js.
+This will change over the next couple years.
+
+Changes in the runtime space let us address fundemental problems in the
+JavaScript ecosystem. In this post I want to describe in the abstract what I
+think an ideal workflow for JavaScript programs looks like.
+
+## My Dream Stack
+
+The beauty of working in a dynamic programming language like JavaScript is that
+complexity can be well abstracted into very small, easy to use high-level
+functions. Therefore my dream stack does not prevent me from making simple
+interfaces. A small app can be defined in a single file.
+
+Of course my dream stack would use JavaScript,
+[the universal scripting language](https://tinyclouds.org/javascript_containers#the-universal-scripting-language).
+
+Of course it should use Async I/O, HTTP server performance should be close to
+optimal.
+
+Async I/O and optimal HTTP server performance Built-in, uniform dev tools - code
+formatter, linter, doc generation, etc
+
+## My dream stack extends to the cloud
+
+Serverless - managed, pay per request, free for low-traffic/demo apps Edge -
+code runs geographically near users. Excellent latency everywhere. Cold starts
+must be fast. No config. Reduce boilerplate!
+
+## This Blog as a Demo
+
+Almost entirely markdown Server-side Syntax Highlighting 100% server rendered,
+no client side JS Source code in Github - PR previews Serverless at Edge
+Deployments to prod take less than 10 sec https://github.com/ry/tinyclouds
+https://tinyclouds.org/
+
+## The Post-Unix Future
+
+Serverless at Edge runtimes like Cloudflare Workers and Deno Deploy are very
+cheap and very fast.
+
+Performance and simplicity is achieved by using V8 Isolates for multi-tenancy
+rather than Linux VMs
+
+Prediction: to maximize the utility of serverless, web frameworks will soon be
+built on post-Unix primitives rather than Node.js primitives.
+
+https://fresh.deno.dev/ example
+
+Call To Action: Demonstrate Remix deploying in less than 10 seconds
+
+Hint: the build step must be JIT instead of AOT
+
+## Deno Deploy
+
+Serverless JavaScript at Edge 32 regions => low-latency world-wide Powering
+Netlify and Supabase Edge Functions