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GitHub Repo Pretty sure · Production code, not research

The actual runtime that powers Cloudflare Workers, open-sourced. Not a wrapper, not a demo—production infrastructure you can self-host. The only catch: it's not a sandbox.

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This is the real deal: Cloudflare extracted the actual V8-based Workers runtime they use at scale and open-sourced it. Genuine signal—you can self-host Cloudflare Workers. The 'science' is low because it's engineering, not novel research. The 'slop' is low because there's no marketing fluff; the README is honest about what it is and isn't (explicitly warns it's not a hardened sandbox). The downside: building from source requires Bazel, clang 19+, libc++, and about 6 system dependencies. Confi...

7712 stars C++ 2026-03-17 1279 days old

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