faastjs/faast.js

faast.js solved a critical pain point in the early-to-mid serverless era: the friction of deploying small snippets of code to FaaS providers for parallel processing. With ~1,500 stars, it has a legacy of adoption. However, its defensibility is low (4) due to a combination of extreme age (2,899 days) and stalled velocity (0.0/hr). The project effectively functions as a 'FaaS-as-a-Compiler' tool, but this niche is now heavily contested by modern 'Infrastructure-from-Code' (IfC) frameworks like SST (Serverless Stack), Winglang, and Ampt, or workflow orchestrators like Inngest and Trigger.dev. Furthermore, cloud providers have improved their own batch capabilities (AWS Batch, Google Cloud Batch) and Step Functions, making the manual abstraction faast.js provides less necessary. The high platform domination risk stems from the fact that AWS and Google continue to simplify the 'zip and ship' experience, making third-party abstraction layers like this one increasingly redundant for most developers.