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1. jimjag · 1789741284 · focus · HN ↗

   After a long hiatus, BeanShell3 is back on schedule.
2. neilellis · 1789744959 · focus · HN ↗

   OMG blast from the past!
3. arein3 · 1789745012 · focus · HN ↗

   This was unexpected
4. lucaprata · 1789745824 · focus · HN ↗

   OMG!
5. pelagicAustral · 1789746423 · focus · HN ↗

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

   1. mt_ · 1789746803 · focus · HN ↗

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

      1. jimjag · 1789753964 · focus · HN ↗

         Who tinkled in your corn-flakes?
   2. frangonf · 1789749200 · focus · HN ↗

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

      [0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beanshell.github.io&#x2F;beany.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beanshell.github.io&#x2F;beany.html

      1. giancarlostoro · 1789751476 · focus · HN ↗

         &quot;Beany can be bad&quot; &quot;LGPL&quot;

         I mean, LGPL isn&#x27;t THAT bad, but made me chuckle.

         1. jimjag · 1789753875 · focus · HN ↗

            That needs to be updated... Beany is ALv2 :)
6. pianoben · 1789747419 · focus · HN ↗

   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.
7. giancarlostoro · 1789751416 · focus · HN ↗

   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&#x27;t just fork it and Oracle owns the rights to it somehow? Was Sun fully involved with BeanShell? I don&#x27;t recall some of this.

   Love seeing old projects come back to life though.

   1. dunconian · 1789752237 · focus · HN ↗

      A fairly large community of people use MicroManager to run and automate microscopes, which is an extremely overgrown ImageJ plugin.
   2. jcranmer · 1789756018 · focus · HN ↗

      jEdit uses BeanShell and appears to still be alive.
   3. badsectoracula · 1789757279 · focus · HN ↗

      &gt; I would hope someone didn&#x27;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.

8. wormius · 1789755206 · focus · HN ↗

   &quot;Beanly was created with The Gimp&quot;

   I can tell.

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

9. jt2190 · 1789757107 · focus · HN ↗

   [delayed]
10. hashmash · 1789758081 · focus · HN ↗

    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&#x27;s currently available?

    1. flossly · 1789795756 · focus · HN ↗

       For me Kotlin is an &quot;acceptable Ruby with types&quot;

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

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