Pollen Runtime

Pollen is a self-organising mesh and WASM runtime written in pure Go. Workloads are "seeded" into the cluster and organically scale and follow load. There is no central coordinator; decisions are made deterministically, locally, using a gossiped CRDT runtime state as their source of truth. Same view of the world; same workload placement and routing.

The goal is for Pollen to turn a collection of heterogeneous machines into a blob of generic compute that can run absolutely anywhere. Think: a Raspberry Pi acting as though it has the power of a server-farm.

Features:

• WASM seeds. pln seed ./hello.wasm here, pln call hello greet there; artifacts distribute peer-to-peer by hash. One host call invokes another seed by name (pln://seed/<name>/<fn>), so authz, routing, and policy can live inside WASM. Authored in Go, Rust, JS, Python, C#, Zig via Extism.
• Mesh services. pln serve 8080 api here, pln connect api there (or pln://service/<name> from a seed). TCP and UDP, end-to-end mTLS.
• Static sites & blobs. pln seed ./public publishes a site; pln seed ./file shares a file. Same verb across workloads, sites, and blobs; kind is autodetected from what you point at. Content-addressed, gossiped, streamed peer-to-peer over QUIC.
• Self-organising. No scheduler, no leader, no coordinator. Topology, placement, and routing emerge from local state; calls go to the nearest, least-loaded replica, and replicas migrate toward demand.
• CRDT-native. A converging document on every node; changes gossip, conflicts resolve.
• Partition-tolerant. Both sides of a split keep running; state converges on rejoin; survivors rehost workloads from failed nodes.
• QUIC transport. One multiplexed, encrypted, UDP-based connection per peer carries gossip, services, and seeds. Connections punch direct between peers; otherwise they relay through any cluster node both peers can reach.
• Cryptographic admission. No shared secrets, no firewall rules. Every link is mTLS.
• Edge-ready. Pure Go, no CGO. Raspberry Pi to cloud host.
• Ergonomic. Opinionated defaults, opt-in configuration.