Javet vs Jest

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Javet		Jest
	Project
3	Mentions	1
581	Stars	2,119
-	Growth	-
6.6	Activity	0.0
7 days ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
Java	Language	Java
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Javet

Posts with mentions or reviews of Javet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-21.

Favorite hidden gem library?
22 projects | /r/java | 21 Oct 2022

Javet is one of a kind. No other library like it out there today. Not widely known yet as its kinda new.
What are your thoughts on Java Isolates on GraalVM?
2 projects | /r/java | 20 Apr 2022

If you want to embed a V8 instance in Java, check out Javet, it uses less memory and will work in native graalvm images. Also allows you to embed a NodeJS instance where you can use NodeJS specific libraries.
A curated list of awesome frameworks, libraries and software for the Java programming language
7 projects | /r/java | 14 Oct 2021

They should add a "scripting" section. There's cool new projects being started in this area like Javet which allows you to embed Node.js and a standalone V8 too. Nashorn and Rhino could be added to that list too despite not being so new.

Jest

Posts with mentions or reviews of Jest. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-14.

A curated list of awesome frameworks, libraries and software for the Java programming language
7 projects | /r/java | 14 Oct 2021

Jest is no longer being developed - should probably be removed.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Javet and Jest you can also consider the following projects:

initializr - A quickstart generator for Spring projects

Apache Phoenix - Apache Phoenix

graalvm-ce-dev-builds - GraalVM Dev Build Downloads

H2 - H2 is an embeddable RDBMS written in Java.

opengrok - OpenGrok is a fast and usable source code search and cross reference engine, written in Java

EVCache - A distributed in-memory data store for the cloud

JADE - a pug implementation written in Java (formerly known as jade)

Apache Hive - Apache Hive

Kalium - Java binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library with the awesomeness of libsodium

Vibur DBCP - Vibur DBCP - concurrent and dynamic JDBC connection pool

PacketProxy - A local proxy written in Java

Crate - CrateDB is a distributed and scalable SQL database for storing and analyzing massive amounts of data in near real-time, even with complex queries. It is PostgreSQL-compatible, and based on Lucene.