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BeanShell3 in Development

38 points by jimjag 14d ago

jimjag 14d ago
After a long hiatus, BeanShell3 is back on schedule.
neilellis 14d ago
OMG blast from the past!
arein3 14d ago
This was unexpected
lucaprata 14d ago
OMG!
pelagicAustral 14d ago
This website is the most soulful thing I've seen today.
- mt_ 14d ago
  I finally can release my badly design projects from my graveyard, which will convience propspect users of the effort I put into it.
  - jimjag 14d ago
    Who tinkled in your corn-flakes?
- frangonf 14d ago
  I will remember today with a smile in face as the day I met Beany[0]. [0] https://beanshell.github.io/beany.html https://beanshell.github.io/beany.html
  - giancarlostoro 14d ago
    "Beany can be bad" "LGPL" I mean, LGPL isn't THAT bad, but made me chuckle.
    - jimjag 14d ago
      That needs to be updated... Beany is ALv2 :)
pianoben 14d ago
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.
giancarlostoro 14d ago
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.
- dunconian 14d ago
  A fairly large community of people use MicroManager to run and automate microscopes, which is an extremely overgrown ImageJ plugin.
- jcranmer 14d ago
  jEdit uses BeanShell and appears to still be alive.
- badsectoracula 14d ago
  > I would hope someone didn't just fork it and Oracle owns the rights to it somehow? Beh, i used to use Java all the time for a bunch of stuff (mainly desktop tools and the like) but after Oracle bought it my interest to it dropped like a rock and remained on the ground after the whole Oracle vs Google circus :-P. Nowadays i still avoid any languages primarily backed by some large corporation.
wormius 14d ago
"Beanly was created with The Gimp" I can tell. Interesting I never heard of this. That site feels straight out of 1999.
jt2190 14d ago
> 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 https://github.com/beanshell/beanshell/blob/main/CHANGES.md
hashmash 14d ago
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?
- flossly 14d ago
  For me Kotlin is an "acceptable Ruby with types" Actually better than the Ruby with types we have now...

38 points by jimjag 14d ago

jimjag 14d ago

After a long hiatus, BeanShell3 is back on schedule.

neilellis 14d ago

OMG blast from the past!

arein3 14d ago

This was unexpected

lucaprata 14d ago

OMG!

pelagicAustral 14d ago

This website is the most soulful thing I've seen today.

mt_ 14d ago
I finally can release my badly design projects from my graveyard, which will convience propspect users of the effort I put into it.
- jimjag 14d ago
  Who tinkled in your corn-flakes?
frangonf 14d ago
I will remember today with a smile in face as the day I met Beany[0]. [0] https://beanshell.github.io/beany.html https://beanshell.github.io/beany.html
- giancarlostoro 14d ago
  "Beany can be bad" "LGPL" I mean, LGPL isn't THAT bad, but made me chuckle.
  - jimjag 14d ago
    That needs to be updated... Beany is ALv2 :)

pianoben 14d ago

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.

giancarlostoro 14d ago

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.

dunconian 14d ago
A fairly large community of people use MicroManager to run and automate microscopes, which is an extremely overgrown ImageJ plugin.
jcranmer 14d ago
jEdit uses BeanShell and appears to still be alive.
badsectoracula 14d ago
> I would hope someone didn't just fork it and Oracle owns the rights to it somehow? Beh, i used to use Java all the time for a bunch of stuff (mainly desktop tools and the like) but after Oracle bought it my interest to it dropped like a rock and remained on the ground after the whole Oracle vs Google circus :-P. Nowadays i still avoid any languages primarily backed by some large corporation.

wormius 14d ago

"Beanly was created with The Gimp" I can tell. Interesting I never heard of this. That site feels straight out of 1999.

jt2190 14d ago

> 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 https://github.com/beanshell/beanshell/blob/main/CHANGES.md

hashmash 14d ago

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?

flossly 14d ago
For me Kotlin is an "acceptable Ruby with types" Actually better than the Ruby with types we have now...