Plans to support javascript

[JuKu]

Hi,

Are there already plans to support javascript as a script language?

[tomcashman]

Hey there,

The problem is that Nashorn (JDK JS engine) was deprecated in Java 11 so we'd need to find an equivalent javascript runtime that supports the JSR 223 API. GraalVM will support javascript but there's still some work to be done to support LWJGL (LWJGL/lwjgl3#397).

I'm open to suggestions :)

[JuKu]

@tomcashman Thanks for that fast answer!

What's with Rhino JS?
Or Google Javascript V8 engine?
Is it really neccessary to use the JSR 223 API?

[tomcashman]

Currently all the abstractions are based on JSR 223 and guarantee capabilities of the scripting runtime. It would be possible to hack in a non-JSR 223 language but I'd prefer not to have to maintain that.

It seems Rhino JS is still maintained (although slower than the deprecated Nashorn) - however the JSR 223 bindings haven't been updated so these would need to be updated and bundled with miniscript somehow. There's some notes on how to do the updating here.

It'll be another few months before my schedule frees up to look at this. But I'll happily review a merge request if submitted :)