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• JetBrainsRuntime

  7 1,135 10.0 Java

  Runtime environment based on OpenJDK for running IntelliJ Platform-based products on Windows, macOS, and Linux

  

https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime

• jdk8u

  1 123 0.0 Shell
  

https://github.com/JetBrains/jdk8u

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• intellij-community

  101 16,588 10.0

  IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition & IntelliJ Platform

  

Almost all JVM, mix of Java and Kotlin. https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community

• Adopt Open JDK

  2 992 9.1 Shell

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

  

These goodies,

https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk-build/issues/1922

• babashka

  112 3,818 9.2 Clojure

  Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting

  

If you are utilizing the JVM via Clojure, the situation is not that bad. A lot of Clojure's and Java stdlib's features are now available pre-compiled with GraalVM as a native executable via https://github.com/babashka/babashka, which provides you with instant process start

So the Java ecosystem is kinda living its renaissance now :)

But overall I very much share your sentiment.

Also worth noting that if you really want to slim a JVM runtime down, from a typical ~300MB size to ~50MB, it's not very complicated using `jlink`:

• SaaSHub

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  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

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