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workerd

GitHub Repo Pretty sure ยท Cloudflare actually shipped this
https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd

Cloudflare's actual Workers runtime open-sourced: a real server, not a wrapper pretending to be one. Genuinely useful if you need self-hosted edge compute.

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workerd is the genuine article โ€” it's the production runtime powering Cloudflare Workers, now open-sourced. Real engineering: V8 integration, Cap'n Proto config, nanoservice architecture with actual isolation semantics. No bullshit about what it does (runs JS/Wasm at the edge, locally). The warning about sandbox limitations is refreshingly honest. Science score modest because it's primarily integration work rather than novel research, though the compatibility-date system is clever. Signal is ...

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

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