Serverless is just a server that has been abstracted away enough by magical APIs to let you (partially) ignore the underlying physical machines.

Yeah I was being tounge in cheek calling a PHP script serverless because technically it is (no need to install stuff and configure a server) but it predates the hype days. Like calling a word doc "nosql"

I am building a FaaS runtime for Lua on top of Elixir.

Why? I want a fun/meaty Elixir project.

Will anyone use it? Who knows.

Could you expand on "and are forced to load all data at once"?

Noooo, I wanted to post this

A sync engine plus the always online nature of LiveView feels at odds with offline-first (which is often associated with sync engines). I wish LiveView had a better offline story.

You might like my tiny library: https://hdot.dev/

It is a bit terser:

h.div.class('box')(...)

I much prefer keeping everything XML-ish:

https://www.solidjs.com/docs/latest/api#switchmatch