Pure Go single binary that turns heterogeneous machines into a self-organising WASM compute mesh with no central coordinator.
Key Takeaways
Workload placement and routing emerge from a gossiped CRDT state; every node converges to the same deterministic view, so no scheduler or leader is needed.
pln seed ./hello.wasm distributes artifacts peer-to-peer by content hash; one host call can invoke another seed via pln://seed/<name>/<fn>, keeping authz and policy inside WASM.
Transport is QUIC with mTLS on every link; peers punch direct connections or relay through any reachable cluster node, handling NAT without configuration.
Static sites, blobs, TCP/UDP services, and WASM workloads share the same pln seed / pln serve / pln connect verbs; kind is autodetected.
Partition-tolerant by design: both sides of a network split keep running, survivors rehost workloads from failed nodes, and state converges on rejoin.
Hacker News Comment Review
Discussion is very early with minimal comments; the only substantive thread probes whether Pollen exposes globally named primitives (compute, store, messaging) comparable to emerging cloud models.
No consensus yet on production readiness, operational limits, or how CRDT conflict resolution behaves under large or adversarial partition scenarios.
