alt Hacker NewsThe reason that DBOS isn't as popular is because it's younger. DBOS launched in the form we know it in 2024. Temporal is much older; Temporal is technically a fork of Cadence and Cadence released originally in 2017, with Temporal forking and releasing back in 2020. When all three are trying to be "the same sort of thing" and that thing is new, it's hard to show up 7-8 years after the trailblazers and say "oh yeah, we're clearly better" when the existing thing works and is used by tons of folks.
Temporal is a dumpster fire, they've gotten so much VC funding (recently had D, 300M at a 5bn valuation) with ... nothing to build except ways to trap customers into their SAAS.
I give them about a year or two before the wheels fall off, then it's off to Broadcom and friends.
But I could be wrong as now they're not in the 'durable execution' space at all, it's 'durable execution for ai' according to their latest conference.
Got to spend that VC dosh somewhere I suppose, they're certainly not spending it on making a good product.