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Dev tools · March 11, 2021

Lunatic

Erlang inspired runtime for WebAssembly

Lunatic launched on March 11, 2021 with 69 votes, #862 of 3,696 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

What it does

Lunatic is an open source runtime that combines the fault-tolerance and massive concurrency of Erlang with the capability-based security model of WebAssembly. It can be used from any programming language that compiles to WebAssembly.

Lunatic is a WebAssembly runtime inspired by Erlang. It provides isolated, lightweight processes for massive concurrency and fault tolerance. Easily create distributed clusters with secure connections between nodes.

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