New candidate JEP: 335: Deprecate the Nashorn JavaScript Engine

[David P. Caldwell]

It appears that GraalVM does not allow the implementation of Java
types in JavaScript code.

I've logged two (possibly related) issues about this:

https://github.com/oracle/graal/issues/541
https://github.com/oracle/graal/issues/542

-- David P. Caldwell
http://www.davidpcaldwell.com/

On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 11:13 AM, David P. Caldwell
<david at code.davidpcaldwell.com> wrote:
> I use Nashorn heavily (as well as Rhino) to power a number of applications I’ve custom-built for customers.
>
> So I’m quite concerned about the news it may be going away. Although a Nashorn that lags other JavaScript tools isn’t the ideal, it’s still significantly better than the alternatives as they are currently available.
>
> As this is apparently the place to give this feedback, I wanted to do so. Thank you!
>
> — David P. Caldwell
> http://www.davidpcaldwell.com/