Alchemy author explains Infrastructure-as-Effects and why it beats SST/Terraform
samgoodwin89 · x · 2026-09-24
Alchemy author samgoodwin89 argues its core is the Infrastructure-as-Effects paradigm: runtime and infra code together give least-privilege policies and type-checked infra correctness, with cloud components as Effects/Layers. Versus SST: pure TypeScript on Effect (vs Pulumi-wrapping-Go-wrapping-Terraform), first-class support for Cloudflare/AWS/Fly/Railway/Hetzner/Neon/Kubernetes and more, active development vs SST on life support, true local emulation vs live proxy.
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