Hyperlight
Hyperlight is a lightweight Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) designed to be embedded within applications. It enables safe execution of untrusted code within micro virtual machines with very low latency and minimal overhead.
Hyperlight scores 6.5/10 (Solid) in Sandboxes & Runtimes.
Language Rust License Apache-2.0 Stars 4.5k★ Type library Self-host Yes Repo hyperlight-dev/hyperlight Homepage https://github.com/hyperlight-dev/hyperlight
Quality
Solid 6.5
Adoption 41
Activity 78
Maturity 88
Community 34
Capability 50
Show the math
Overall 6.5/10
value = 6.5/10
score = value
Adoption 4.7/10
value = 41.3/100
score = 1 + 9 * value / 100
Activity 8/10
value = 77.5/100
score = 1 + 9 * value / 100
Maturity 8.9/10
value = 87.9/100
score = 1 + 9 * value / 100
Community 4/10
value = 33.7/100
score = 1 + 9 * value / 100
Capability 5.5/10
value = 50/100
score = 1 + 9 * value / 100
Key metrics
4.5k★ GitHub stars
199/90d Recent commits
8 devs/90d Recent contributors
1.7y Project age
active Last commit
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Labels
- Self-hosted
Self-hosted
You deploy and operate it yourself; there is no hosted option here.
microvm vmm wasm isolation rust