Still built on v8, but it claims to present a more Rust-friendly API than competitors

The async example in the readme is weird. It appears to be an example of tokio::sleep, where you synchronously call into your library before you sleep. Nothing about your library usage is async. In fact, the whole usage of the library is blocking, so I can't even call it from my existing async code. I'm expecting: I can call my async Rust function from JavaScript, and I can await a JavaScript async method. The example should at the very least be using `async fn main`.

> 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.

    import { DatabaseSync } from "node:sqlite";
    console.log(new DatabaseSync(":memory:").prepare("SELECT 1").get());