JAX: Project Nashorn

May 24, 2013

JAX: Project Nashorn # The last talk I went to was on project Nashorn - demonstrating the capability to run dynamic languages on the JVM by writing a JavaScript implementation as a proof of concept that is fully ECMA compliant and still performs better than Mozilla’s project Rhino. It was nice to see Lisp, created in 1962, referenced as being the first language that featured a JIT compiler as well as garbage collection. ...