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BeanShell3 in Development

32 pointsby jimjagtoday at 2:21 PM18 commentsview on HN

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giancarlostorotoday at 5:10 PM

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.

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jt2190today at 6:45 PM

> 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

hashmashtoday at 7:01 PM

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?

pelagicAustraltoday at 3:47 PM

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

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pianobentoday at 4:03 PM

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.

wormiustoday at 6:13 PM

"Beanly was created with The Gimp"

I can tell.

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

jimjagtoday at 2:21 PM

After a long hiatus, BeanShell3 is back on schedule.

neilellistoday at 3:22 PM

OMG blast from the past!

arein3today at 3:23 PM

This was unexpected

lucapratatoday at 3:37 PM

OMG!