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> To gain access to the Deno (and Node.js compat) standard library used by Deno requires forking deno_cli as they have largely coupled these additions to the main executable.

This is no longer the case. While it does not currently provide a stable API, that functionality exists in the deno_runtime crate and is relatively easy to reuse.

The deno_runtime crate is indeed easy to use however the exts that provide compat for web apis and Nodejs compat still require forking deno_cli. You can use some of their ext crates https://github.com/denoland/deno/tree/main/ext but not everything.

Also using ops within Workers is challenging, particularly if they share state.