zgc VS JetBrainsRuntime

Compare zgc vs JetBrainsRuntime and see what are their differences.

zgc

The Z Garbage Collector https://wiki.openjdk.org/display/zgc (by openjdk)

JetBrainsRuntime

Runtime environment based on OpenJDK for running IntelliJ Platform-based products on Windows, macOS, and Linux (by JetBrains)
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zgc JetBrainsRuntime
5 6
159 1,129
1.9% 5.0%
0.0 10.0
12 months ago 3 days ago
Java Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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zgc

Posts with mentions or reviews of zgc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-22.

JetBrainsRuntime

Posts with mentions or reviews of JetBrainsRuntime. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-04.
  • How to Setup Flutter for Building Android without Android Studio
    1 project | dev.to | 8 Apr 2024
    Jetbrains Runtime – this is bundled with IntelliJ and Android Studio, but with patches focused on optimization for use within an Interactive Development Environment context – doing incremental builds, hot reload of class definition, and embedded Chromium in the runtime. I do not believe the added features are useful for building and archiving Android Applications for distribution, but it will work non-the-less.
  • Level-up your Java Debugging Skills with on-demand Debugging
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Oct 2023
    https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime

    Also with 'Java on Truffle' on GraalVM you can use enhanced class reloading

  • JetBrains IDEs are going to be available for ARM Linux in the 2022.3 release!
    1 project | /r/AsahiLinux | 18 Nov 2022
    However, I am running IntelliJ on Asahi since June already. They did not provide offical Linux arm64 support, but what since May, when they released the first 2022.2 EAP, they switched to JBR 17 (the JetBrains Java Runtime). JBR 17. Fortunatly, in May, they started to release JBR builds for Linux am64, starting with JBR 17.0.3-b463.3. That meant we had everything we needed to run IntelliJ on Asahi: I just had to set the env var IDEA_JDK=/path/to/arm64/jbr/ to make IntelliJ use the correct JBR. Besides that it was necessary to download a fsnotifier version that was build for arm64 and set the path in ~/.config/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2022.3/idea.properties.
  • What blocked you from migrating beyond Java 8?
    3 projects | /r/java | 3 May 2022
    Have you tried the JetBrains Runtime with DCEVM? https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime/releases/tag/jbr17.0.2b396.4
  • Android Studio Canary for Apple M1 (Silicon)
    2 projects | /r/androiddev | 8 Apr 2021
    This project's key is replacing x86_64 Jetbrains Runtime (https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime) to arm64 Jetbrains Runtime. Arctic Fox IntelliJ Core version is 2020.3.1, maybe google upgrade core version to 2021.1 as soon as possible. (IntelliJ Core version 2021.1 released at a few days ago.)
  • IntelliJ Idea 2020.3.1 Is Out with Apple Silicon Support
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2020
    https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime

What are some alternatives?

When comparing zgc and JetBrainsRuntime you can also consider the following projects:

jMonkeyEngine - A complete 3-D game development suite written in Java.

Adopt Open JDK - Eclipse Temurin™ build scripts - common across all releases/versions

Dragonwell8 - Alibaba Dragonwell8 JDK

android-studio-apple-m1 - Android Studio Arctic Fox (Canary) for Apple Sillicon

SAP Machine - An OpenJDK release maintained and supported by SAP

intellij-sdk-code-samples - Mirror of the IntelliJ SDK Docs Code Samples

intellij-community - IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition & IntelliJ Platform

jdk8u

pgjdbc - Postgresql JDBC Driver

Spring Loaded - Java agent that enables class reloading in a running JVM

Litiengine - LITIENGINE 🕹 The pure 2D java game engine.

unlogged-sdk - Unlogged SDK for recording code execution