Supporting TypeScript natively on Nashorn

[Jim Laskey]

The Nashorn team has no plans but you might check the GraalVM https://www.graalvm.org project to see what they might have in this area.

Cheers,

— Jim


> On Aug 9, 2018, at 7:01 AM, Erko Knoll <erko.knoll at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Great job with Nashorn, I really love it. However, based on the blog post
> of
> https://blogs.oracle.com/nashorn/nashorn-architecture-and-performance-improvements-in-the-upcoming-jdk-8u40-release
> I would like to ask if there are any plans to natively support TypeScript
> in the future.
> 
> The reason I'm asking is because I built a product that allows to do
> TypeScript scripting for JVM. But currently I'm transpiling TypeScript down
> to ES5 so Nashorn would be able to ingest it. For obvious performance gain
> reasons it would be really cool if type information could be retained from
> TypeScript side.
> 
> If you are interested how writing TypeScript currently looks like for JVM,
> then you can visit the website: http://hyperionscripting.com/. Though it is
> built for JIRA that is written in Java, then the same approach could be
> applied for any JVM application.
> 
> Hoping to hear back,
> Erko