> No because Lambdas are proprietary which means you can't run it in a CI or locally.
Arc has a full sandbox, so yes you can run a lambda in a CI or locally. You should know this - if you're developing your apps by deploying every lambda as you edit it you're doing it wrong. Most lambdas don't really need you to simulate AWS.
> Also, it becomes stateful if it pulls data from a database, S3 or anywhere else on AWS which it almost always does.
Sure, persistence exists, but when people say 'stateless' they mean 'has no transient state'. They don't mean 'has no data'.
> AWS Lambdas which I consider to be the first widely used Lambda service
OK. You don't consider GAE (2008) widely used. I disagree - mainly because I was using GAE back then and thinking about this new world of no-memory, timeouts, etc - but lambda is definitely more popular.
Arc has a full sandbox, so yes you can run a lambda in a CI or locally. You should know this - if you're developing your apps by deploying every lambda as you edit it you're doing it wrong. Most lambdas don't really need you to simulate AWS.
> Also, it becomes stateful if it pulls data from a database, S3 or anywhere else on AWS which it almost always does.
Sure, persistence exists, but when people say 'stateless' they mean 'has no transient state'. They don't mean 'has no data'.
> AWS Lambdas which I consider to be the first widely used Lambda service
OK. You don't consider GAE (2008) widely used. I disagree - mainly because I was using GAE back then and thinking about this new world of no-memory, timeouts, etc - but lambda is definitely more popular.