V8 VS Duktape

Compare V8 vs Duktape and see what are their differences.

Duktape

Duktape - embeddable Javascript engine with a focus on portability and compact footprint (by svaarala)
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V8 Duktape
48 10
21,235 5,580
1.2% -
9.9 7.4
4 months ago 3 months ago
C++ JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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V8

Posts with mentions or reviews of V8. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-12.

Duktape

Posts with mentions or reviews of Duktape. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-04.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing V8 and Duktape you can also consider the following projects:

quickjs - Public repository of the QuickJS Javascript Engine. Pull requests are not accepted. Use the mailing list to submit patches.

Lua - Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.

ChakraCore - ChakraCore is an open source Javascript engine with a C API. [Moved to: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore]

jerryscript - Ultra-lightweight JavaScript engine for the Internet of Things.

ChaiScript - Embedded Scripting Language Designed for C++

Cython - The most widely used Python to C compiler

V7 - Embedded JavaScript engine for C/C++

SWIG - SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages.