Tallinn JS meetup

Attended TallinnJS meetup organized by Stefano Amorelli at LIFT99. Won ticket to Digit Conference. Almost won a hoodie from Printify but figured that googling an answer was not fair 🤐

First talk was by Dmitrii Baranov about telegram bots using telegraf.js telegraf.js - v4.16.3

Second talk was by Jan Johannes about workerd, a js runtime
GitHub - cloudflare/workerd: The JavaScript / Wasm runtime that powers Cloudflare Workers

I think having a bot is a nice interface extension to any app, in addition to the usual web, mobile, desktop and cli apps. Telegram, discord, slack bots can improve support reaction time, push app alerting/notifications and more. I wish telegraf supported text and video streaming though.

Then it could also be more seamlessly integrated with LLMs, say if you had a Clarifai bot streaming AI questions and answers, switching ML model on the fly would you use it over a web UI? With bots and AI element to it, apps could become much more interactive and lose UI entirely. You can see that change on the example of google search -> perplexity & chatgpt transition.

Regarding workerd, its quite a niche engine that I feel does a bit too much (I would not want to re-learn k8s), but it may be useful in cases when you want your app users to run custom code, so you could allow some javascript sandbox to run closer to your dataserver, instead of using webhooks. For example Pipedrive marketplace could allow external app vendors to run custom js code on its backend, similar to how go playground, coderpad, leetcode, github or other platforms allow running custom code.