Numax - a portable runtime for distributed apps
Hi, over the past few months I've been working on this project: Numax is a small Rust runtime that does three things: it runs WebAssembly modules in a sandbox, has a built-in local key-value store, and syncs everything across nodes with CRDTs and gossip. Basically, you write a wasm module, run it on two machines, and they converge (I hope !). It's a decentralized system... I hope someone finds it interesting! There's a whitepaper I've put a lot into, and I think the code isn't bad either! I believe there's still room in this world for software that's fun and well made, and while building…
Numax - a portable runtime for distributed apps launched on June 16, 2026 with 6 votes, #2,066 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
The beginning of a new runtime model. Contribute to GianIac/numax development by creating an account on GitHub.
You write a WASM module. numax runs it. The state is there. Sync just happens. Building distributed software today is heavier than the problem it's trying to solve. Containers, orchestrators, remote databases, ad-hoc sync layers, three different toolchains depending on where the code runs. numax tries a different path: keep the runtime tiny, keep the state local, let CRDTs handle convergence. The hard parts of distributed systems don't disappear, but you stop paying for the ones you didn't actually need. git clone https://github.com/GianIac/numax cd numax cargo build --release Run the distributed_counter example on two nodes: # Node A nx run distributed_counter.wasm \ --listen 0.0.0.0:9000…from github.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi, over the past few months I've been working on this project: Numax is a small Rust runtime that does three things: it runs WebAssembly modules in a sandbox, has a built-in local key-value store, and syncs everything across nodes with CRDTs and gossip. Basically, you write a wasm module, run it on two machines, and…
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