This week Jonathan Bennett and Jeff Massie chat with Max Rydahl Andersen about JBang, the cross-platform tool to run Java as a system scripting language. That’s a bit harder than it sounds, particularly to take advantage of Java’s rich debugging capabilities and the ecosystem of libraries that are available. Tune in to get the details, as well as how polyglot files are instrumental to making JBang work!
- https://www.jbang.dev/
- https://maxandersen.github.io/getting-started-with-java-the-jbang-way/
- https://xam.dk
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Sounds like a great way to get sued by Oracle. And I say that as a ZFS user.
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Thanks, but no, thanks. I’ll stick to faster languages (and java is notoriously slow to start). For system scripting language (and not for long running apps) that is a dealbreaker.