Christian Warden, founder of October Swimmer, joins us to talk about aer, the local Apex runtime for Salesforce developers. Christian is a Salesforce development professional and Linux enthusiast with a passion for building developer tools.
Main Points
- Core problem: slow Apex test round-trips to the cloud
- Local debugger for Apex
- Go-based interpreter with in-memory SQLite database
- Broad Salesforce feature coverage (validation rules, flows, formulas, async Apex, governor limits)
- Commercial licensing model
- Origins: apex-format parser + Writing an Interpreter in Go
- Known limitation: implicit org dependencies must be in the repo
- Challenges and future roadmap
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