BeanShell3 Is Back After a Long Hiatus, and Developers Are Thrilled
BeanShell3 in Development
The BeanShell scripting language for Java is in development again, and the Hacker News thread is full of nostalgia. Developers recall using it in Android apps as a telnet-style debug REPL, calling it antiquated but beloved. The project's website drew praise as soulful, and the original poster confirmed BeanShell3 is back on schedule after a long pause.
Hell yeah, I loved beanshell! We used to use it in Android development to give our apps a debug repl, telnet-style. It was so nice, if antiquated even back then. Excited to see this worthy project continue.
- jt2190
> Work has resumed on the long-dormant 3.0 development line (master; the JAR targets Java 8 and is tested on Java 8 through 25) after a multi-year gap.
More details in the CHANGELOG: https://github.com/beanshell/beanshell/blob/main/CHANGES.md
- giancarlostoro
Which projects still use BeanShell? I have not heard of BeanShell since... idk 2012? or something, who is maintaining it as well, I would hope someone didn't just fork it and Oracle owns the rights to it somehow? Was Sun fully involved with BeanShell? I don't recall some of this.
Love seeing old projects come back to life though.
- hashmash
I used BeanShell for a few projects years ago, but with JShell and the ability run a Java program directly from a source file, I have no reason to use BeanShell again. What does BeanShell3 offer over what's currently available?