BeanShell3 in Development

jimjag

After a long hiatus, BeanShell3 is back on schedule.

neilellis

OMG blast from the past!

arein3

This was unexpected

pelagicAustral

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

pianoben

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

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.

wormius

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

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

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?