BeanShell3 in Development

[OP] jimjag | 18 hours ago

After a long hiatus, BeanShell3 is back on schedule.

neilellis | 17 hours ago

OMG blast from the past!

arein3 | 17 hours ago

This was unexpected

lucaprata | 17 hours ago

OMG!

pelagicAustral | 17 hours ago

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

mt_ | 17 hours ago

I finally can release my badly design projects from my graveyard, which will convience propspect users of the effort I put into it.

[OP] jimjag | 15 hours ago

Who tinkled in your corn-flakes?

frangonf | 16 hours ago

I will remember today with a smile in face as the day I met Beany[0].

[0] https://beanshell.github.io/beany.html

giancarlostoro | 15 hours ago

"Beany can be bad" "LGPL"

I mean, LGPL isn't THAT bad, but made me chuckle.

[OP] jimjag | 15 hours ago

That needs to be updated... Beany is ALv2 :)

pianoben | 16 hours 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 | 15 hours 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 | 15 hours ago

A fairly large community of people use MicroManager to run and automate microscopes, which is an extremely overgrown ImageJ plugin.

jcranmer | 14 hours ago

jEdit uses BeanShell and appears to still be alive.

badsectoracula | 14 hours 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 | 14 hours ago

"Beanly was created with The Gimp"

I can tell.

Interesting I never heard of this. That site feels straight out of 1999.

jt2190 | 14 hours 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

hashmash | 13 hours 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 | 3 hours ago

For me Kotlin is an "acceptable Ruby with types"

Actually better than the Ruby with types we have now...