Package request: workerd

[hughobrien]

Workerd is a JavaScript / Wasm server runtime based on the same code that powers Cloudflare Workers.

workerd interacts with wrangler but at present isn't compiled from source or available separately. This has caused a number of issues 1 2 3.

Providing workerd as its own package has been mused upon. An existing request for miniflare could likely be closed as workerd supersedes miniflare.

workerd is built with bazel, typically a bleeding-edge version beyond what is in nixpkgs.

It requires Node, Python, CC and tcl to build, and left to its own devices bazel attempts to download the compilers/runtimes necessary for this, which naturally are not NixOS compatible. The envoy package faces similar difficulties and resorts to patching out the problematic code.

CC wrangler maintainers: @dezren39 @seanrmurphy @ryand56

Metadata

• homepage URL: https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd
• license: Apache 2
• platforms: POSIX

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[seanrmurphy]

I did look into this for a v short time; it's quite non trivial - it's based on Bazel, which I've no experience with (but I'm now working a bit more with Bazel so perhaps I could contribute a bit more on this).