Oracle Proposes New Native JavaScript Engine for OpenJDK

hypnosec writes "Oracle has proposed a new project for OpenJDK — Nashorn, which aims to implement a high-performance yet lightweight JavaScript runtime that would run on the JVM natively. Nashorn will be headed by Jim Laskey, multi-language Lead at Oracle and the project will be sponsored by HotSpot group. The project proposes an implementation of JavaScript such that it can run standalone JavaScript applications via the JSR 223 APIs. Nashorn's design will enable it to take advantage of new JVM technologies like the MethodHandles and the InvokeDynamic APIs."

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Re:Useful as a configuration language

[John Bokma]

If you mean JSON; YAML (1.2 and up) is a superset of JSON.

I don't think you mean actual JavaScript in a configuration file and eval-ing that....